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Revenge of the Chirmolito Bean Burrito

Posted in Farmers' Market, Green, Loco for Locavores, Recipes, real food, tagged , , , , , , , , on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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Lamb, anyone?

Posted in Loco for Locavores, real food, tagged , , , , , on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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“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 , , , , , , , , on March 28, 2008 | 14 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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Brother John and the Chicken Wing Posse

Posted in Loco for Locavores, marketing, tagged , , , , , , , , on February 3, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

At the Farmer’s Market yesterday, I was sampling coffee along side an ambitious group led by a colorful character calling himself Brother John and sampling their new BBQ sauces. To be fair, the sauces are decidedly NOT new, given that they are family recipes from Brother John’s great-grandfather, dating back to the 1880’s. [...]

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