Wow! This is one heavy pastry.

Before I go any further, let me just say that Collin Street Bakery had on display many delicious looking holiday treats. I almost bought a fudge pecan pie, which is my favorite kind of pie. But that's not what I was after.

I wanted a fruit cake.

Did you know that one of the Starbucks in town has a library attached to it?

Yep. Well, sort of. For the first time today, I stepped inside the Starbucks at Baylor's Moody Library, which is sort of the entire lobby of the library. The library, it should be noted, has been there for a while. It opened in 1968. The Starbucks in the lobby opened this fall to significant popularity.

In sports, it's called taking what the defense gives you.

In evolution, it's adapting to survive.

In business, it's just good business. In the six months or so that I've known Joseph and Alexandra Parrilla, I've been impressed by their willingness to try new things to get new customers through the Cafe Viejo San Juan doors.

When it's cold and a little wet and windy outside, like at this very moment in our town, there's only one sensible food remedy.

Chili.

There's bad new and good news regarding the availability of fried chicken in the downtown area.

The bad news: Krispy Chicken on 11th Street has closed. The sign on the window claims that it has closed temporarily for repairs to the building. However, the Krispy Chicken folks aren't planning to reopen it as a Krispy Chicken at least. Perhaps they're making repairs in order to sell it.

There's pretty much only one way to interpret the slogan painted on the side of the building at Mama & Papa B's.

"If the Bears kill it, we'll cook it."

Let's see, does Mama & Papa B's serve frog legs or tiger or jayhawk? You certainly won't find Aggie or Red Raider or Sooner on the menu. I suppose one could interpret pork sausage or ribs as coming from a Razorback, but that's a bit of a reach.

Thanks to the WacoFork family for making November our best month to date in many ways.

We released the iPhone app, which is exciting enough for us, but it's been even better to hear so much positive feedback from the people who have been using it.

We also had more than 50 reviews written during November, which boosts our total since we launched in April to 650. That's a wealth of information on Waco restaurants. So thanks for helping us in that way.

I've been having a pretty specific food craving of late.

On the Wednesday night before Thanksgiving, my dad and I went to the butcher in my parents' hometown. My dad turned me loose to pick out a few items to put on their new outdoor kitchen grill for dinner. Along with chicken sausage and stuffed pork chops, I selected bacon-wrapped chicken. The butcher asked if we wanted spicy or regular. Spicy, obviously.

When I bragged about the bacon-wrapped chicken, which contained a jalapeño and cheese in the middle, my friends have inquired "You mean like a crazy wing?"

A message to all the bosses out there: the half-hour lunch, or even the hour lunch are things of the past. The 90-minute lunch is the now.

Oh, I can see how you wouldn't want your employees stretching the lunch break to two hours and beyond, but I'm making the argument for the 90-minute lunch. This is self-serving for our website because we want the good workers of Waco to be able to experience any restaurant in town on their lunch breaks. So that's full disclosure.

But that doesn't mean we're wrong.

A few days ago, a friend and loyal WacoFork follower told me she was so excited about this coming weekend.

Obviously, there are several good reasons to look forward to this long Thanksgiving weekend: time with family and copious amounts of food, non-stop football for four days, Black Friday, leftover turkey sandwiches, etc.

But she meant something else. Something I wasn't thinking of, or at least something I wasn't thinking of at that exact moment. She was pumped to go to the Homestead Heritage Craft Fair.