Thread creep. . . There are some wonderful restaurants in Brooklyn. My favorite middle eastern one is there, in the downtown area (get out of the subway at DeKalb). And there's an Italian one on King's Highway (where the F train stops) that is heavenly.

Liland, this is one heckuva lot of tea. I'll package up some of it and send it along, but you'd be stuck with huge volumes otherwise. Did you know John Dwyer? He's the culprit who started this. And I'd test this theory on the cheaper salmon, not the good stuff.

Copper River salmon--I'll have to run over to Whole [Paycheck] Foods here in Arlington, Texas, and see if they've got it in yet. It's horribly expensive, but absolutely wonderful. When my mother was dying a few years ago the Copper River salmon came in, and that's the last specific request for a meal that she made, just a little piece of salmon. You can bet I went post-haste to get some for her. So we have a "Grandma Memorial Meal" once a year here, with Copper River salmon and some of her other favorites.

Maggie