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“It is very difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends on not understanding it.”
- Upton Sinclair
My dad called tonight and got me all stirred up. He pointed me to an article in today’s US News about government bans [...]
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“Sadness is just another word for not enough coffee.” – Wally
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 [...]
Big Organic
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 [...]
Get Real - Buy 100% Kona Coffee
Posted in Blends, Kona, rants, tagged Kona, Kona Coffee Farmers Association, 100% Kona, real Kona, Smith Farms on March 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Robert Badgett’s blog has a post today from the head of the Kona Coffee Farmers’ Association (KCFA) - the good guys - about some tough talk by the Hawaii Department of Agriculture to get them to cease and desist their educational campaign about Kona blends. I laughed out loud at the DoA’s sentiment that [...]
Everything Old is New Again
Posted in Tips, rants, tagged cost of coffee, retro, saving money, thermos coffee on March 9, 2008 | 1 Comment »
One of my news feeds sent me a blurb the other day saying that Barnie’s coffee chain was repurchased by its founder, Barney “Phil” Jones. Jones founded the chain with one store in 1980, and sold it to Sara Lee (of cheap-wheat bread fame) in 1996, who in turn sold it to a banking [...]
Food Companies Tweak the Recipe
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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