The smells of summer are inextricably connected to the smell of food on the grill.  It has an uncanny effect on everyone, and it wafts all over the block until even the dogs are wondering why they don’t live with you at your house.  You can enjoy the feeling of summer all year round, even in winter.  With our selection of drop in gas grills, you can find exactly what you’re looking for, to suit your needs, your taste, and your budget.

We offer these pieces of summer with an excellent record of customer service and satisfaction.  We like to see people changing their lifestyles from indoors to outdoors, and it’s always a pleasure to watch you when you start to consider your next cooking adventure.  The drop in has grill offers an enormous precision and convenience, so that you’ll be able to cook new things with great skill, right from the beginning. As you start to work with your grill, you’ll no doubt move to more complex cooking styles, and you might also discover that there’s no end to all that you can learn.  Meats have amazing potential on the grill, of course, and there’s so much to learn with every type, and even every size of the cutlet or fillet.  Vegetables also have enormous possibilities, and grilled eggplant is perhaps one of the most obvious.

One of the tricks to grilling eggplant has to do with controlling the amount of water in the flesh itself.  This is actually true for all foods, since the moisture affects the cooking to an enormous degree.  With grilling eggplant, you can slice the flesh into cutlets, place on a tray, then place a paper towel over this, and cover with a heavy pan.  This will actually squeeze out some of the moisture, and give your grilling a lot more evenness and control.  It also gives the cutlets a nice even shape.  In this way, you can use the eggplant in a variety of ways, as a grilled addition to a salad, or the standard eggplant parmesan, and you’ll be absolutely thrilled by what the outdoor kitchen does to this vegetable.

The more than one hundred and fifty year old Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, New York is one of the oldest neighborhood squares on the island.  Many of the best of New York restaurants have sprung up around the park, which has for decades been the central meeting place for the residents of this borough.  Children have grown up in the park, and generations of church goers have come to the park for their religious ceremonies.  Birthdays have been celebrated and weddings have been performed.

Music lovers from around the world travel to Harlem to attend any number of the legendary annual festivals that that take place in the band shell, including the ever popular Charlie Parker Jazz Festival each August.  For the first hundred years the park was called by a different name, the Mount Morris Park.  History has led to the belief that at that time the park was named for Robert H. Morris, whose family was into the horse racing track that was located nearby at the time, and who in 1841 was also elected the mayor.

The park was conceived and designed in 1811, by the Manhattan Commissioners’ Plan, which was originally intended for a different location.  However the Mount Morris location was set on a large expanse of bedrock, and instead the location was moved to where it is currently.  The Park officially opened to the public in 1840, on December First.  Not much was done in the way of design for more than thirty years, however Ignatz A. Pilat was the Chief Landscaper for the city, and created a garden in 1867 which remained throughout the 1930′s.

Then at this point in the Park’s history, Robert Moses the Parks Commissioner further enhanced the design with architecture, sculpture and playgrounds, all of which remain a part of the landscaping to this day.  During the 1960′s the band stand was built and a public pool was installed.  A recreation room was also constructed, and during 1973, the name was changed to the Marcus Garvey Park to honor the legendary leader of the Black Nationalists.  As with so many areas, parks, buildings and structures, the park is rich with history.  This location is also filled with the love of all those who have been shaped by their years growing up and living in the borough of Harlem.

Only a week left to tour Australia. So, it’s now time to get serious with the speed of getting to the major cities and all the famous points of interests. Since being here for almost a month, I’ve heard the most about Melbourne. So, I thought I’d better make a short stay there.

I wasn’t sure about Melbourne, but decided to book myself an OZ experience, because I wanted the freedom of travel. Also, because there were no other trips that would get me there in enough time to see all of Melbourne and then time to travel to Adelaide, which is where I’ll catch my flight back to Sydney. Before I caught the ‘party’ bus, I managed to get reservations with a boutique hotel Melbourne has, I wanted to chill from the bus ride. But, taking the OZ bus was the best decision I ever made. I know wish I would’ve used that through out my whole trip! It was great being around people my own age and being given information about the places we passed along the way, and stopping at all the viewpoints and points of interest. This would’ve been totally impossible on a regular bus.

Too bad I only booked the travel to Melbourne on the OZ tour, it would’ve been a total blast staying with all the great people I met on the bus. But, I really like to be off on my own when traveling. It was a tough decision though. So, the next day was my first day in Melbourne and I really loved my hotel! What a calming change from the ‘party’ bus. I had to rush around to see all the sights since my time was limited. I got up early and headed off to my self named tour ‘the whistle-stop’ tour. I started out with what the Lonely Planet guidebook recommended, a walking tour. I first walked to St. Patrick’s Cathedral. The stained glass windows were astoundingly beautiful. I then walked through some alleys and streets of the Central Business District. The architecture here in Melbourne was an interesting mix. There were tree-lined Parisian type avenues and some pretty old Victorian structures, which contrasted weirdly with the modern angular glass and steel buildings. I really liked my walking tour. This gave me a real feel for the place, especially walking through a real live Victorian arcade, which was linked by two streets and some very tall skyscrapers. I really wish I had more time to spend here. It was really quite lovely.

I was hoping to go to the museum, I was told that it was very impressive and that it even had a special Neighbors exhibition. But, unfortunately, the Lonely Planet had the times wrong; I arrived 10 minutes before they closed. I guess I’ll have to come back to Melbourne another time. I think I’ll plan for that now, even though my only time free again will be next year.