EAST LIVERPOOL Marty “Banjoman” Liebschner is presenting the program “From Music to Movies” at 6:30 p.m. Friday at the Historical 1876 Thompson House of East Liverpool, where he volunteered from 1986 to 1988. The house is located at 305 Walnut St. in the heart of downtown. Liebschner, a 1988 graduate of Beaver Local High […]
Last minute holiday gifts for the cook
Damon Lee Fowler
Just five short years ago, shopping in Savannah for the cooks on your Christmas list was pretty simple. Aside from the “big box” department stores, our city enjoyed four stores that catered exclusively to cooks. Then, one by one, they disappeared.
Downtown’s Kitchens on the Square, which specialized in quirky kitchen décor, closed when its owner moved away. Shortly afterward the owners of the Southside’s independent cookware vendor, Kitchenware Outfitters (where I ran the cooking school) decided to retire and move closer to their grandchildren.
The following year, Williams-Sonoma closed their Savannah store, and, just recently, Tanger Outlets in Pooler lost Kitchen Collection.