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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Chain smokers and boozers…. And the veterans talk about their battle scars… “
If you’re not a Toby Keith fan (or worse, don’t know who he is), you probably won’t appreciate how much those plagiarized lyrics describe my day. For today, I spent my first day hawking coffee at the Raleigh Farmers Market. [...]
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