During the airing of a Cash Cab episode several years ago, host Ben Bailey asked the question:  "What iconic hot cocoa brand was invented by an American of Sicilian descent?" or something close to that effect.  The answer, of course, was Swiss Miss.  For the other folks in the room's benefit, I chimed in with "And Uncle Chuck was that inventor".   "Uncle Chuck" was Charles Sanna, inventor extraordinaire, of Madison, Wisconsin.  Unfortunately, the world...

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I have a big soft spot for Baltimore.  I lived there for a time ... moving there the day Harbor Place opened in 1980.  I lived there for much of its revitalization and restoration.  I wasn't too excited when I realized I would be moving to the city that I had only ever seen driving south on the Beltway en route to destinations South.  It ultimately became the city that I really didn't want to...

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