Thursday is Challah Day in the Weaver Street Market bread bakery. We use a rolling machine to roll hunks of dough into long, thin strips, which our bakers braid into the familiar shape of challah. Here’s a peek into the bakery at 7 AM.
It’s Elderberry Time–Again!
Last year this time, we visited Rodger Lenhardt of Norm’s Farms in Pittsboro. Norm’s Farms makes a variety of elderberry products in Elizabethtown, NC, using berries grown on the family farm in Missouri. Elderberries are nutrient dense and have medicinal properties. People use them to help with sinus congestion, ease muscle and joint pain, and…
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Thursday 7 AM in the Food House (Video)
Our kitchen crew, bakers, and delivery team are hard at work well before 7 AM to get our food into the stores. Here’s a 1.5 minute tour.
La Riojana’s Village of Tilimuqui
For the past ten months, we’ve been selling fair trade Riojana wines from La Riojana cooperative winery in Argentina. The fair trade premiums on the wine sold are used to fund community projects. Completed projects include a water system and school in the remote village of Tilimuqui. Walter Carol, export director from La Riojana, shared…
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Special Delivery: Cabot Creamery’s Clothbound Cheddar
This week’s Special Delivery cheese is Cabot Creamery’s clothbound cheddar from the Cellars at Jasper Hills. The cheese ages for 10 to 15 months in cellars, where the wheels are constantly brushed, turned, and monitored for quality.
Continue ReadingFair Trade Riojana Wines
For the past ten months, we’ve been selling fair trade Riojana wines from La Riojana cooperative winery in Argentina. Through June, we’d sold 36,302 bottles! In addition to receiving a fair price for their grapes and other benefits of belonging to a co-op, the grape growers receive a fair trade premium that is used to…
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Bone Broth Protein Powder
On sale this weekend we have tubs of bone broth protein powder. You may have heard of the benefits of drinking bone broth: it’s rich in protein, collagen, gelatin, glucosamine, chondroitin, and key minerals, and it supports healthy joints, a healthy gut and immune system, metabolism, and more. But many people don’t have time to…
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Local Lamb from Firsthand Foods
By Carolyn Twesten, Weaver Street Market Meat Merchandiser Weaver Street Market is excited to now carry local, pasture raised lamb! Thanks to the work of Firsthand Foods and farmers Joe and Robin Hampton, we are now able to offer our customers another great local meat product. The Hamptons raise beef cattle and lamb for Firsthand…
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Local Kefir
Kefir is a fermented milk drink made by inoculating milk with a starter. It tastes like a thin yogurt. Carolina Farmhouse Dairy produces a line of kefir including blueberry, strawberry, lemon, plain, and golden milk (made with turmeric).
Continue ReadingPlum Pastries
Plum season is here! Our pastry bakers are making braided plum coffeecake, plum almond tarts, and lattice-top plum pies.
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