Posted in Fair Trade, New Coffee, Organic, tagged Organic, Fair Trade, New Coffee, el salvador, el salvador flag, el jabali, wild boar on June 5, 2008 | No Comments »
Remember when Mom used to tell you “your eyes are bigger than your stomach”? Boy, is that ever the way I feel right now. But I still can’t get enough!
This time we’ve added a superb new Central American. Direct from the nation of El Salvador, we have just added the coveted “El Jabali”, a Certified [...]
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Have gardening questions?
This Saturday, May 24, three Master Gardeners will be attending the Cary Farmers’ Market to answer everything you wanted to know about your garden, including indigenous planting, sustainability, and more.
The Master Gardeners program is offered through the Cooperative Extension Center. See link for more info about the program.
You can get [...]
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Posted in Farmers' Market, Green, Loco for Locavores, Organic, Recipes, Tips, real food, tagged espresso, Farmers' Market, real food on April 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I hear three complaints about real food that drive me nuts:
1. It’s not affordable
2. It takes too long to prepare
3. You need to be a good cook to make it appealing
So while pulling together dinner tonight, a regular Monday night with work and kid activities, it occurred to me that the meal [...]
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Posted in Farmers' Market, Green, Local Coffee of the Week, Loco for Locavores, New Coffee, Organic, real food, tagged cary, cary farmers' market, Farmers' Market, local, locavore, Organic on April 5, 2008 | No Comments »
The Cary Downtown Farmers’ Market opened today, and we were there. The night leading up to opening day was quite wild, with wind, rain, thunder and lightening, so we wondered how the attendance would be, or if we would even be able to set up. The weather had cleared, more or less, by [...]
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Slowly digging out of my backlog, added two new coffees to the site this morning:
Panama Organic La Berlina Estate - when I’m not drinking espresso, I favor Panama as my personal coffee of choice. It is usually a technically perfect cup, and always a crowd-pleaser. This estate coffee is no exception; beautiful, balanced, [...]
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Posted in Loco for Locavores, Organic, Recipes, Trade Shows, rants, real food, road coffee, roasting, small business, travels, tagged cream sauce, local food, locavore, old city coffee, pasta, philadelphia, reading terminal market, real food, recipe on March 28, 2008 | 11 Comments »
And so it was in the City of Brotherly Love for me this week. I expected Philadelphia to be a coffee Mecca, given the large Italian influence on the place. Well, maybe not Mecca, exactly, that would be Seattle. But I expected a decent espresso. Turned out to be [...]
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Posted in Loco for Locavores, Organic, Policy, real food, small business, tagged agriculture policy, CSA, farm bill, local, locavore on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
A friend wrote me this weekend in search of a CSA who isn’t already sold out for the season (good luck). I referred her to localharvest.org, but I started thinking about the whole supply and demand thing. Why are the CSAs I know sold out already? This article may shed some light [...]
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Posted in Loco for Locavores, Organic, rants, real food, tagged Organic, beer, big organic, big food, philip howard, deceit, food politics, marion nestle, edward tufte, starbucks, organic beer on March 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Organic beer. I came across it at the supermarket a few months ago, and picked up a six-pack. I don’t recall the brand. I was disappointed with the beer, and mentioned it to one of my home brewer friends, who informed me that what I thought was a craft beer was actually [...]
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In 1629, King Charles I “erected into a province,” all the land from Albemarle Sound on the north to the St. John’s River on the south, and called it Carolina. The word Carolina is from Carolus, the Latin form of Charles (such vanity!). When Carolina was divided in 1710, the southern part was called South [...]
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Posted in Local Coffee of the Week, Loco for Locavores, Organic, Tips, rants, small business, tagged Coffee, farmer, green mountain roasters, grocery, kraft, Organic, P&G, prices, vegetables on March 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I read an article in the Wall Street Journal today entitled “Food Companies Tweak the Recipe”. (I’d link it but WSJ only lets you read the first paragraph for free so there’s not much point. It’s on page A9 if you have a copy). The gist of the article is that commodity prices are rising, and [...]
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