No, it has nothing to do with chocolate. There is no chocolate in this coffee. It is not flavored coffee. It does not taste like chocolate. Well, ok, maybe there are some chocolate notes. But it’s not flavored!
There, I’ve dispensed with the FAQs for Mocha Java. This blend is named after the port of Mokha [...]
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This morning’s fan mail below…
Not quite sure I support the conclusion that coffee may save your life, but it’s nice to know it apparently does no harm. You draw your own conclusions!
Note that we have a nice selection of decafs if you’re pregnant
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Hi Jim
As I sit here drinking my 2nd cup of your Costa [...]
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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, Recipes, real food, tagged amanda shaw, burrito, chirmolito, flying mayan, gulf rim cafe, hillsborough nc, local food, real food, vegetarian on April 29, 2008 | No Comments »
It’s not what you think…
It all started with coffee. At the Gulf Rim Cafe, in Hillsborough, NC, Andrea and Joe are Louisiana natives, and they serve the blend we made especially for them as the house coffee. On Saturday they needed more coffee, and I had a family that needed dinner. How convenient. There are [...]
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Posted in rants, real food, tagged raw milk, real food on April 22, 2008 | No Comments »
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True or False: You can get tuberculosis from drinking raw milk.
“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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This one is a little different.
One of my customers is a farmer in Orange County, NC, where he and his wife, who is a vet, raise sheep. He told me yesterday he has 42 lambs that will be ready for market in about 6 weeks. The drought last (and this ) year has [...]
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Posted in Farmers' Market, Green, Loco for Locavores, New Coffee, real food, tagged cary farmers' market, duke, duke farmers' market, earth day, earth-friendly, eco-friendly, farmers, Green, la farm bakery, la farm bread, marion nestle, mocha java, mocha java wild type, new blends, peas, slow food on April 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I know, it’s been a while since I’ve updated the blog! But we’ve been busy!
In honor of Earth Day coming up this week, we had a team at my other Alma Mater, Duke University. They have quite a farmer’s market on Fridays and had an Earth Day theme for this market week; since we have [...]
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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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I promised some recipes from yesterday’s market haul. I was tempted to skip this post, thinking it to be in the category of “preaching to the choir”. But this morning I attended a planning meeting for Slow Food Triangle, where I learned from others’ experiences that sharing ideas on how to use fresh [...]
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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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