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, road coffee, small business, travels, tagged Road trip, greenlife grocery, asheville, western north carolina, road coffee, chimney rock, bat cave on March 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This weekend I made a delivery to GreenLife Grocery in Asheville (note to western Carolinians - you can now buy our coffee at Greenlife!!). I could have done a backhaul with Appalachian Harvest, but I wanted to see Greenlife first hand, and figured I could accomplish a few things on the trip (like some [...]
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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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Ok, time to live up to my resolution to promote other people’s local small businesses. I want people to promote mine, right? Time to pay it forward.
Tonight we visited Ciao! Osteria in Apex. I’ll skip the full blown restaurant review here, except to say that they meet my main criteria in determining whether I would [...]
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