Love, Lust, and Food Stories: Unveiling Valentine's Day Secrets

Hello, everybody.

It is our Valentine's Day special here at Family Tree Food and Stories.

And Valentine's Day is, it's a rather interesting day.

I think we all look forward to it and we all loathe it at the same time.

But in any case, it is a delicious day.

And there are stories, both food and family oriented.

And before we got started, Sylvia and I were chatting with our guest Norma

Taylor about a story, and I'll share it real quickly, that although it wasn't on

Valentine's Day, but it's pretty close, that I was in college and I was dating

this guy and It was Parents Weekend, my parents came out, and we all had dinner

together, and my dad leans over to my date and says, She's a pretty great

gal, but she's not Gina Lola Brigida.

I'm like, How could you do that?

on that note, This non Ginalotobrigida is opening the Valentine's Day here

at Family Tree Food and Stories.

So, welcome Norma and hello Sylvia!

Well, hello.

You're a goddess.

You know, I mean, what can I say?

I know.

I'm too short to ever be a goddess.

Well, good things come in small packages, like chocolate, right?

Yeah, well heat enough.

I bet you're not a small package anymore.

But anyway, Hey, I love this holiday and I love it for a couple of reasons.

One, obviously the love vibes, and Norma knows there's a candy I like

for every one of the holidays, and she always would supply me with my addiction

she would bring from the candy store.

but I love it, one for the love vibes, but number two, here in

the north country, Ms. Nancy is.

It's the harbinger of spring.

You know, you've had the groundhog, and he usually comes back with bad news, six

more weeks of bad weather, but you get to Valentine's Day and hope spring's eternal.

Okay, we can get through this.

Right, Norma?

We'll get through this.

And we've had a very Harsh beginning to our winter up here, so we'll especially

look forward to Valentine's Day.

But what I want to do right now is introduce Norma and

get going on our conversation.

let me tell you a little bit about her and it's a big.

She has been the Lexington Area Manager for Edible Magazine.

I also know she was a writer and an editor.

She didn't write that down on her bio, but I know that she does that.

She was a contributor to Food News and Chews, and Nancy,

remember, that was my radio show

for years, and we ended it, but it still lives on, doesn't it, Norma?

does, it lives on, you can't get rid of it.

Audibly delicious.

so she is also, is the Marketing and Food Safety

Manager at Ruth Hunt Candies.

Now that's a big deal in Kentucky.

It's one with great history and everybody knows refund candies.

And Norma and I know it particularly well since we worked the line, didn't we Norma?

with bourbon balls.

Remember the Lucy and Ethel skit

We did.

we reenacted it and now we can't find the video.

So we may have to reenact that Norma,

please do.

We'll have to do that again.

That

you, you've got pull.

So, you just set it up and we'll, be there.

And Nancy, you might have to come up for that one.

That would be fun.

and finally, last but not least is her, expertise in bourbon.

And I'm sure she drinks a lot of it in order to develop the expertise.

You'd have to, right?

job research,

I know it's important, but we'll talk about that later

because bourbon goes with what we're going to talk about here in a minute.

And here's what I'd like to start with.

We have to preserve our traditions, right, Nancy?

We have to take care of them.

We have to know that they're going to stay well and good and

that, we can maintain them.

And what I want you to do is pull back the curtain a little bit on the process

it takes to put these delicious giant strawberries covered in luscious chocolate

in front of us on Valentine's Day.

But what happens?

Where do we get those strawberries?

Just give us a brief kind of look, behind the curtain of

those delicious strawberries.

Norma.

sure.

To start with, the berries come from either California, which produces

about 88 percent of the berries that go throughout the United States, or during

these colder months a lot of times Florida as well, because Florida obviously has

the more temperate climate usually, not right now, but generally, and they

are a big strawberry grower as well.

So they come up from Florida.

either California or Florida, to the factory, and you've got about

three days, they don't last long, and particularly after you've covered

them in chocolate, you might think, that would preserve them a little bit,

but they start to go, pretty quickly.

So they come in, they get washed, and they get coated.

Now, if you're doing, I don't know, four or five cases, That's not a big deal.

If you're doing a hundred, two hundred cases, it gets to be a big deal.

I've literally seen the factory look like strawberry fields.

They're everywhere.

like

fun.

Oh, it is very fun.

And, fortunately we have chocolate lines and they go down the chocolate lines.

which is the process that covers them automatically, so you

don't have to hand dip them.

I want to go down the chocolate line.

I with mouth open, right?

Like a chocolate fountain at a party.

So, then, obviously, pops into the boxes, and off they go.

And, they almost always sell out.

They're not the only one.

Old Kentucky Chocolates makes them.

In fact, they do them year round.

and the big thing is really processing them quickly because they do go quickly

and they use the big strawberries

I was gonna say, they're great big ones.

You don't see those in our little strawberry patches.

no.

And, they grow bigger in California.

The weather's better

I guess, but they probably get lots of good food and nutrients and great soil.

And, some of them are almost as big as the palm of my hand.

It's extraordinary.

Has the weather ever interfered with the strawberry season?

absolutely.

I mean, like, right now.

fires in California and snow in Florida.

I

mean, whoever heard of

that, Hey Norma, I got a question for you.

So when you're talking about chocolate covered strawberries, is there a

particular, type of chocolate that's better for those strawberries that

people prefer, or, like there's some chocolate that just has a stronger

percentage of cocoa butter in it.

What, what works best?

typically 60 percent for the darker, and, a good, good

percentage for milk is about 53%.

Of course, white chocolate is, is

Just fat, basically,

yeah, it's got the flavor,

It's not real chocolate, huh?

not real talk no., so they'll use that and, if there

are a variety, I because you're buying it, you're buying it

literally in big pallet sized cases

I bet they have to back up a ways to get ready for this

onslaught of strawberries that come in,

Oh, and in a small.

Processing plant, everything goes to that for, three days and you just have

to plan accordingly to get your other, inventory made ahead of time, because

all the production goes straight to that.

was really fun, to go to the factory and see candy being made.

And watching Junior, who started out, I think, moving boxes.

And Junior had been promoted eventually to being the cream candy expert.

And we watched him as he made cream candy.

I think he's since retired.

But, it's just the small town Operations, which Mel Sterling

is, which is where the factory is.

I mean, it was just fun, Yeah.

small, family owned chocolate company, See's Candies or See's Chocolates

were big up by us in Massachusetts and, and that region and they're delicious.

I'm not sure if they're originally from the Northeast,

but they were pretty popular.

but I have a a pop quiz for the both of you.

So the pop quiz is, do you know why strawberries are

considered seductive fruits?

Well, heart shaped.

How, how's that?

Oh,

to Venus, who was the goddess of love, due to the red color.

and yeah, that goes back to ancient times.

Oh, you're cheating.

Well, I'm going to give you one other little thing, which I didn't know about,

and I thought this was rather interesting, is that you know how strawberries

have all those little seeds on them?

Yeah.

Yeah.

And there are actually some devices out there that you

can buy, like kitchen gadgets.

You know how we all have

kitchen gadgets in our drawer because they were cool and we've never used them?

Well, there actually is a strawberry deceiter.

takes all those

little seeds out.

Yeah, uh, you know, I can deal with the strawberry seeds.

It's fine.

But apparently, the strawberry and all those little seeds were

considered to be a sign of fertility.

But when you're of a certain

that.

Yeah,

care about that.

So

across that.

Okay.

well, you know, but I wondered why when I saw that.

like almost making something up.

I mean, I don't know.

You know, little seeds.

Oh, seeds.

Okay.

Got it.

Duh.

yeah, okay, Sibyl, you're a little slow this morning.

I

I'm a little slow.

It's cold up here.

Ah, yeah, so, so yeah, so, strawberries and all the things that they represent,

um, You know, everything.

And then we go to chocolate.

Norma, you're a chocolatier.

I you know a lot about chocolate.

You made several appearances on Food News and Chews talking about chocolate.

Tell us about chocolate.

Because one of the things I want to note is chocolate's just not

plain old Hershey bars anymore.

your chips can come in all these varying cacao percentages.

And

chocolate is considered a health food now.

Like who would have thought of that?

Like, hello, my hips are loving you.

yeah, because it's rich.

Now, I try to gravitate when I'm doing my chocolate chip cookies and stuff.

I try to go to the 70%, but it's just not quite the same.

talk us a little bit about chocolate and how you came to

become an expert in chocolate.

Well, the higher percentage of cacao in the

chocolate, the lower percentage of fat solids and sugars and milk.

So that's why it does taste is sweet at the chocolate you were

just traditionally used to.

It might be the old Hershey bar, but it is definitely better for you.

That's what's behind all of that.

It is considered an aphrodisiac because it contains chemicals.

Like, and this is a long one, pH lital Amin,

Ooh,

uh,

Scientist Norma, I forgot to put that on your resume.

Yeah.

kind of comes with the territory a little bit.

and that's kind of a per perfect serotonin.

and does, trigger pleasure and wellbeing in the brain, similar to

those when you're falling in love.

So they stay but it is, the sensual pleasure of eating it and

the way that it's been presented over the years, obviously.

So I had actually heard that there wasn't, so I'm

going to be the contrarian here.

that there was no scientific background on chocolate being an aphrodisiac,

but it goes back to 500 BCE.

When the Mayans used it in wedding rituals.

So maybe that has to do with it.

if there is some scientific background, great.

I'm all for eating chocolate and, and I will be

more

sensual, right?

Well, right?

But if not, maybe it's all about hooking up,

Or, maybe, we don't know how far back it may have gone,

but the marketing of chocolate to become the thing, But it is rich, and

I think that's kind of, abandon your spirits and eat this really rich stuff.

And

What melts in your mouth.

Okay.

It's creamy.

So it just makes you feel good, And isn't that what sex is supposed to do?

So there you go.

It's supposed to do that.

And so there you go.

hey, Nancy, there was a story about, Cadbury, which is one of the famous

inventors of all things chocolate, right?

I mean, I love their bunnies that come at Easter

And,

Oh, yeah.

The bunny that clucks like a chicken.

Yeah, I like that bunny.

And those eggs that have the little yellow center.

But anyway, we're back to Valentine's.

So let's talk about Valentine's.

Cadbury, so yeah, he was a Brit.

if you're listening and you're British, please don't take this

personally, but I don't consider the British to be overly romantic.

I don't know why.

it's that stiff upper lip thing.

I think of the French or the Italian or even the Greek, right?

so Cadbury, Richard Cadbury, in 1861, started making chocolate

boxes with cupids and roses on them, on the covers and the top of the

boxes, and they became a huge hit.

So maybe, what happens behind closed doors in Buckingham Palace is

more

know about,

right?

And Chocolate Kisses.

So we have, the Kisses with Hershey, Milton Hershey in

1907, which he started that.

But Russell Stouffer.

So this guy really sort blew my mind a little bit.

But Russell Stouffer, he really took Cadbury on the challenge, and actually

created the heart shaped box in 1923, and that little devil added also black

satin and black lace to his boxes,

No,

know, right?

that's sexy.

I want to know what Mrs. Stouffer felt about that one.

Can you say that fast several times?

to know what Mrs. Stouffer felt about that one.

Have either of you been to Hershey Park?

I have been,

Ah, the big giant kisses and all of that stuff.

Oh, it's so fun.

Well, yeah, you would have had to have been there, Norma, to be,

to get your PhD in chocolate, you

I was there, actually, a long time

ago.

I but it was still a lot of fun.

So, speaking of going through the tunnel of chocolate love at Hershey's,

we're going to take a quick break here.

How's that for the moment,

sounds perfect.

So, we left off in the tunnel of chocolate love at Hershey Park.

open, lapping it up,

if that doesn't sound sexy, I don't know why, but

with a glass of bourbon on the

Are you a glass of bourbon or a glass

Although, let's not leave out wine, you

know?

Yeah, I'm a wino.

Normally, you may be a bourbonite, but red wine, which is supposed

to have all those same kind of properties that chocolate does.

Uh, just make you feel warm and loved, right?

Are

Well, and wine and chocolate, I guess the chocolate's supposed to be

more enhanced in the flavor of wine.

But there are some really interesting things that I think we've all

sort of grown up over Valentine's Day, especially as young kids.

So remember those little confection hearts that have

Mm hmm.

Mm

Right?

love them.

They were actually started by the New England Confection

Company and otherwise known as NECO.

I didn't know that NECO actually stood for New England Confection Company.

I didn't either.

And those little NECOs are wonderful.

Right, well, Necco sold out to another bigger company in, 2018.

So, I guess we get more of them, but apparently there's up to 80

little sayings on those things.

I think my box always got the same one, and, you pass those little chocolate,

wait, not chocolate, but the little candy

boxes around to

Yeah, yeah.

yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

They love that.

And they've changed every year.

They do go through a process, I believe, where they review what

the messages are, which is so it's kind of cultural traditions coming

to life on tiny little hearts.

I, you know, and I don't know that they do, but I do think

they do a review periodically.

they have the traditional ones.

Be mine, call me, kiss me, love you, miss you with a you kind of thing.

I think they perfected the art of texting before we knew what texting was

They did.

remember sharing those little things with folks.

I

Oh, absolutely.

just before we moved from Connecticut down to Florida, I was going through

boxes of stuff and my mom saved all sorts of things from when we were kids.

It turns out that she actually saved a valentine that I got from her.

From a friend of mine, who I still know today, since kindergarten.

Her and her husband actually introduced Bob and I, so I still have Diane's

Valentine, which is kind of neat.

Although it's not food, but it is a heart, and it's a card, and

I think that's kind of sweet.

all I have are memories, but,

Well, those

last two.

And what about oysters?

I mean, talking about memories.

we talk about foods and traditions.

We're sort of got to get back to those little things.

But oysters are kind of hard.

I don't know if they do chocolate covered oysters.

That kind of sounds disgusting,

doesn't

it?

does

them.

ever seen that.

No.

Oh

yeah.

However, they are doing very interesting things these days, with

foods like combining bacon with ice cream.

Oh yeah.

but I want to get back to the oysters.

always go

back to the

So oysters.

did you know that a Giacomo Casanova, first of all, I didn't know that

Casanova's first name, I didn't know Casanova even had a first name,

but it was

Giacomo, right?

Giacomo,

Casanova, he ate a, no, it doesn't, like, hey, Gio, right?

Or

Yeah, Tio.

maybe you just call him

Jock.

maybe if you have the Italian accent, as in, um,

yeah, uh, there you go.

You can kind of see him, dressed up in kind of a lounge lizard look, coming

up and using a pickup line on you at a

Right, we got some pickup lines too, but he used to eat 80 oysters a day.

I mean, oh, that sounds kind of disgusting.

But, talk about pickup lines.

Can we, can we talk about those?

I've

Yeah, let's talk about pick up lines.

We might pick something up.

If I want to sneak out and go to a bar at night, I need to know those, you

right?

If I want to pick up my husband, think we're MINT to be

Meant to be together.

Are you a donut?

Because I find you ado able.

How about a date, darling?

Oh, that is too cute.

We should get coffee because I like you a latte.

right, these are really bad dad jokes.

Can you

imagine your parents using these pickup lines?

I certainly can't.

Ah, no.

I have to say, in fact, if any guy used any of these things on

me at a bar, I think I'd walk around.

I'd go to the other side of the bar.

So, yeah, you've got all of those.

Hey, I want to talk about honey for a moment.

obviously, it's kind of Valentine ish.

It's on all the lists, and it's a name you call somebody that you're fond of, right?

Boron.

That sounds awful.

That sounds like a chemical you don't want, right?

Boron,

which regulates.

Estrogen, and Testosterone, and I'm like Boron?

isn't that odd?

Uh, because you know, usually you can't pronounce these names, but you

can pronounce Boron, and just imagine.

But, now, you and Bob were bee parents at one time, you said, and

then you told me something that robbed me of my will to live, that

the commercial honeys Are sometimes not what you think you're getting.

So, as I say, we were bad bee parents.

we tried very hard, but our bees died.

They flew away.

They swarmed.

They got eaten by mice.

They got eaten by bugs.

And yeah, you know, my, yeah, yeah, but, speaking of, of just quick foods that

bees don't like, because a banana is also considered a rather seductive food,

I wonder why.

Don't tell anybody,

right?

to say that.

But if you eat a banana and you go into the hive, it

actually creates an alarm signal.

So one year, I opened up the hive.

It was like the week before Christmas.

I had had a banana on some cereal that morning.

I didn't even think about it.

It was the end of the day.

And the bees are all quiet in wintertime up here.

Because, you know, they want to stay warm.

I opened the hive and I didn't have any bee contraptions on And I put my head

over the hive, looking in to see if we could find the queen and make sure

that she was there and safe and warm.

And All these million little eyeballs are looking up at you.

A bee came out and stung me just right in the

Oh, ouch.

Yes, my face blew up 24 to 48 hours later.

I called the doctor and he said, you got stung by a honeybee.

And this is December and he's client and I said, yes.

And he said, how do you know?

I said, because I did this, I stuck my head in the hive

Oh, Nancy.

He's like, okay, why did you do that?

But but bees back to the bee thing.

So commercial, They produce a large amount, and in order to get your bees

going in the springtime, when you've got your, they call it a new, a new, a new

hive, um, they don't necessarily start producing honey very quickly on their own.

They need a little help, so you put sugar water on the hive, so there's

your first batch of honey out of a

new hive.

It's kind of watered down with regular granular or powdered sugar and water.

So you'll see the difference.

You'll taste the difference when, a new crop comes out on your

own, if you're creating your own bees, and later on as it starts

Hmm.

all of the pollen from in the area, but it's kind of interesting.

So,

Well, that is, that is.

So, I got to be careful about my honey, because I want the good stuff,

Get your, make sure it's local honey.

Do not, yeah, it should be within 25 to no more than 50 miles from

where you are, but really 25

and I try to do that, and there's a lot more of that available, too.

you know, we are sort of in a golden age, and it'll probably get better, of food.

More choices.

Sometimes so many you can't stand it, like chocolate chips.

I mean, you can stand in front of the counter for an hour and try

to figure out which one you want.

There's chili peppers.

Well, chili is considered a seductive food for spicy and

you're raising your heart and excitement and pomegranate, right?

The love apple, they called it.

I don't know why they called it a love apple, because it's so hard to

get those darn things out, right?

Those little seeds.

Mm-hmm

Edible Flowers.

I asked a friend the other day, I said, so what would you add to the show?

And she says, how about Candy Underwear?

Well, did Norma, did, did they serve that at your, your candy store?

That's in the back room, right, Nora?

Yeah.

Now

she, she can't reveal that on a national

podcast.

that's, I think,

A T M

that's like in the old blockbusters, you had to go to

a special room to get the stuff.

I won't say the good stuff, but you know.

Hey, how about avocados?

Nancy, are we allowed to say the

Aztec translation?

We can say whatever we want.

It's our show.

It's a translation for the Aztecs was testicles

pendulous avocados.

I love that.

And then edible flowers.

So, as long as we're talking about expensive in Valentine's Day,

everything seems to be like, overly top as far as it goes from that.

And when the average cost of a dozen roses in 2025 now is at $94.99, you

know, it's like, Roses are edible.

Can you imagine, you come,

actual petals are,

yeah, oh yeah, absolutely, you can do all sorts of things with roses, but

can you imagine you get a dozen roses from your lover, your husband, they come home

and they see you eating the roses, I like, you just ate a hundred dollars worth of

flowers?

that's better than steak, I guess.

I don't know, you would think so, I guess, I'd be a cow.

Yeah, yeah.

Hey, one of the more interesting ones is garlic, That's supposed to be

for some reason.

Well,

you're Italian.

Yeah, it has a high allicin, A L L I S O N, allicin, and

yeah, so that's how you pronounce it.

Garlic.

It's thought to increase blood flow to sexual organs.

You could say that, right?

Thereby potentially boosting libido in both men and

women.

But

can do

can you imagine garlic?

Because it would almost be a turnoff, right?

Yeah, I'd have to put a clothespin on my nose and be like,

Oh, hello, it's nice to meet you.

I've met you before I'm in bed with you too.

Nancy, I know that you've got a strawberry salsa recipe,

but I wanted to ask Norma a couple of questions I want to go back to

the candy store industry in general, because we love to go to a candy store.

There's something traditional about every holiday going into whatever

you're, you know, local candy store is, and Nancy, you had one in Connecticut,

And

there's, every state has one, and I went in at Christmas time, and guess

what I found in Old Kentucky Chocolates?

I found a horse's butt.

That was

solid chocolate.

Did you see that?

I bought them as gag gifts for my boys.

And on New Year's Eve at near midnight, we made the official award of being

the horse's butt of the year awards.

you can use that to break

up with your lover on Valentine's Day,

Yeah, you get

that horse's butt.

A horse's butt.

But what's the future of candy stores?

Are they going the way of a lot of things?

Because the grocery stores are now selling everything, right?

Are they healthy?

Are our candy stores that we love to go to healthy?

seem to be healthy to me, and it depends on the type of candy

store, but I think, particularly like the Steve's and the gourmet chocolates.

Torres and Brooklyn has a fabulous store, Norman Love in Florida I

think what's going to be impacting is how much chocolate they do and

the price of chocolate, because the price of chocolate continues to rise.

The availability of chocolate continues to decrease, and climate

change is figured in there.

Chocolate's a very fragile crop, so that can have some impact.

But I think, to me, the, the candy store and, is like Starbucks,

Yeah.

in general, it's, it's a treat.

And everybody can participate.

And so I think for that reason, they'll probably hang around where other, other

Yeah.

They bring, life to the phrase kid in a candy store.

They really, do.

you are.

You're a

kid

really do.

if it's Cs, which is strictly candy, or if it's something like Replant, which

is, more notions as well as candy, as

well as, other things, I think people really enjoy just Coming in,

I do.

They're

Well, I think there's the nostalgia of the candy

store, too, as you grow older.

Those of us who are, let's say over 40, you probably remember

riding your bicycle down

to the, the local store and getting the, the five cent candy, well, or penny candy,

Candy.

anymore.

But even still, the, you know, the wax lips or

the, you know, The little wax soda bottles or even, even just bubble gum that

you

Okay.

I gotta weigh in on this.

I saw them in a small town in Kentucky just a week ago.

Maysville, Kentucky.

They sell candy cigarettes.

Oh my

Oh, I've seen those years ago.

Candy cigarettes.

No, no, they're just these

Oh, these are,

powder candies

that

are.

compressed.

Yeah.

you can be, a ten year old vamp

Yeah.

for Valentine's Day.

I talked myself out of it.

And give your boyfriend or your girlfriend

while you're smoking your candy cigarette the candy hearts with the text me

There you go.

Make a package and then your chocolate covered strawberries and all of that.

But you have a recipe for us, don't

I do have a recipe.

So talking about chocolate, or not even chocolate, but strawberries,

because strawberries seem to be like one of the main foods.

That we love around Valentine's Day.

And a number of years ago, Bob and I were invited through, friends of his.

Actually, it was his old high school girlfriend and her husband.

So how romantic is that one?

We won't go there.

Oh

Actually, she was lovely, uh, or is lovely.

we went to a vineyard called Pelletier Vineyards.

in, Niagara on the Lake.

And, of course, Niagara Falls is considered romantic, and it was cold,

so I don't know how romantic it was.

But we had this chef's dinner, and it was fabulous, where you're able

to go behind the scenes, into the kitchens, just a small amount of

people, and you could ask questions.

Well, one of the samples or things that they had created specifically

for the small group of us was this strawberry salsa, and it was delicious.

Oh, and they placed it on just a little piece of endive.

So the, the spice of the endive and the strawberries, and here's how you make it.

It's very easy to do.

You dice up a bunch of strawberries.

You add shallots.

I would say percentage wise, I'm not necessarily a measurer.

So I'm probably, an old Italian grandma in a past life, but not being a grandmother

or Italian, I don't know where that

came

You were Gina, Lola Bridge today

in a previously, Yeah, Yeah.

There you go.

She'll be a recurring theme, I think.

Right.

So you take the strawberries, you dice the shallots, you take some fresh

mint, you rip the mint, you don't cut it because the ripped mint actually

exposes the oils a little bit more so.

A little splash of ice wine.

For those of you who don't know what ice wine is, ice wine is when they

allow a certain amount of grapes to actually freeze on the vine and

they increase the sweetness of it.

So, you splash that on there, it's, you don't get a lot of it in the winter,

every year, and not every vineyard produces it, and then you add a little

chili pepper, just to add a little bit of spice, and some salt and pepper to taste.

Now, that was the chef's recipe, and was excellent, however, this

is what I would do, because I can never leave well enough alone.

I would add just a little bit of balsamic vinegar, add that little

spice, or maybe even a little lemon.

To give,

some

acidity to it and just bring some of these things out.

So that is my recipe for that.

And we'll put it in the episode notes or the show notes, but it's really so good.

And maybe you want to drizzle a little champagne chocolate on top of it too.

Oh, why not?

It reminds me, of strawberry, that are out there a lot

Right?

But it's just a little

bit, so if you've got it on a piece of endive, you can feed it to your lover.

Oh, so sweet.

So sweet.

On that note, how about we wrap up this show?

Because honestly, I don't think we want to keep everybody away from the

person that they love for too long.

And that said, have a little bit more chocolate, a little bit more strawberries,

perhaps some champagne along the way.

And yes, continue.

Oh, wine, right.

And if you haven't gotten everything else, go back to the beginning of this

episode with Norma, Sylvia, and myself, and have a wonderful Valentine's Day.

Take

care, be well, and ciao, bye bye.