Vinegar. It’s not the first cocktail ingredient which comes to mind as you’re reaching for your glass bottle at 5pm sharp, like every civilized person does. It is the stuff of pickled things, after all, not to mention clean windows, Easter egg coloration, and, when mixed with baking soda, uninspired high school science fair projects.

“I like flowers.”

– Elton John (when asked by the British High Court why he recently spent $400,000 on flowers)

Flowers are the original gift. Long before we became clever enough to cut diamonds or bake cookies or write love songs, people recognized the perfect beauty of delicate little flowers and gave them to whomever they held dearest.

3Be Meats’ name alone tells you what the owners are in it for. When Tony Anderson and Mack Ternes established the Bismarck-Mandan area’s butcher shop in 2017, they could only think to name it after their own kids: Tony’s Bentley, Bea and Brimley, and Mack’s Eliza.

Nordic Ware is a family-owned, American manufacturer of kitchenware products. Celebrating 76 years in business in 2021, this local company manufactures and markets an extensive line of quality cookware, bakeware, microwave and grilling products and specialty kitchenware that is distributed worldwide.