Showing posts with label Austin foods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Austin foods. Show all posts
Saturday, August 26, 2023

The Cultured Carrot at Wheatsville Co-op

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The Cultured Carrot was founded by Palak Sadarangani, a health coach practicing an Ayurvedic lifestyle and Kristin Simpson, a pharmacist wit...
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Daysmith Coffee

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It is nice to see vendors in the store again in the wake of the continuing Covid concerns. Derek and Daniel, founders of Daysmith Coffee, we...
Sunday, December 19, 2021

Cultured Carrot Fermented Foods

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How do you get your kids to eat sauerkraut? For Kristin Simpson, the solution was to develop a line of fermented foods that their palates wo...
Tuesday, December 7, 2021

Funky Mello: Feel Good Marshmellows

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We have not been treated to vendors at the Wheatsville Co-op since Covid started and it was a pleasant shock to see Delisa and Zach of Funky...
Monday, September 2, 2019

Crisp Greens at the Wheatsville Co-op

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Usually, I do the shopping on Sunday, but with the Labor Day weekend, Laurel and I ran errands together on Saturday. So, we were introduc...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Two Hot Mamas Salsa

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New Mexico is the home of chili peppers. In both Las Cruces and Alburqueque, at Christmas time, people hang red and green chilis from their ...
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Sunday, January 20, 2019

Coffee at the Co-op: Tradition and Novelty

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Traditional Marxism teaches that capitalist firms attempt to drive each other out of business by seizing markets. On the other hand, the Aus...
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Monday, November 21, 2016

FOND Bone Broth

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Not only is Fond Bone Broth good for you, being shelf stable for one year, it makes an excellent gift.   On their website ( here ) they sa...
Monday, July 11, 2016

Bela Portuguese Kosher Sardines

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Independent Chef Brands representative Brandon Allen was in the Wheats ville Co-op demoing Bela Brand sardines: locally caught (in the Atla...
Sunday, April 24, 2016

Tofurky: For Paleolithic Vegetarians

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If our ancestors had not eaten animals, we would not be here.  On the other hand, not everything paleolithic is appropriate to the 21st cent...
Saturday, January 30, 2016

Nutrients and Beer Hallmark Austin Food Culture

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Fitppl is a local firm that makes plant-based “superfood” supplements.   Each measured serving of both their cocoa and blueberry and th...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Saving the World Through Beer

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Save the World Brewing Co. of Marble Falls, Texas, is “America’s first 100% philanthropic production craft brewery.”  They just extended th...
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Saturday, June 13, 2015

Salsa Showdown: Jaime's versus Royito's

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In the movies, when those two guys are standing there, the streets are already cleared, so I am not going to say which one is better.  It d...
Monday, May 4, 2015

Casa Brasil Coffee

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Austin runs on cerebral energy.  Dell, Inc., is headquartered here, of course, but even South by Southwest gives top billing to mathemat...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Sunday at the Co-op

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A co-operative recognizes the reinforcing roles of consumer and producer.   I discovered something of truism that at any marketplace with h...