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No higher death risk in long-term coffee drinking

Posted in Health, coffee news, coffee science, real food, tagged , , , , on June 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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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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Got Milk?

Posted in rants, real food, tagged , on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

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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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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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Ten Minute Farmers’ Market Meal

Posted in Farmers' Market, Green, Loco for Locavores, Organic, Recipes, Tips, real food, tagged , , 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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“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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Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants.

Posted in real food, tagged , , on March 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »

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This is the clever subtitle of Michael Pollan’s new book, In Defense of Food. I haven’t read it yet, given its newness and the queue for it at our very cool new local library. But I did just catch up on his essay in the New York Times, which is probably a [...]

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