Big Spoon Roasters makes handcrafted nut butters from scratch in Durham. North Carolina is a top peanut producer, and Big Spoon Roasters does its part supporting sustainable peanut agriculture. They source high quality nuts and other ingredients from local producers when possible, and from trusted, transparent farms and producers who share their philosophy that food matters to our health, our happiness, and the well-being of our planet.
Mark Overbay founded Big Spoon Roasters with his wife, Megan, in 2011. The coarse texture of their nut butters mimicks that of the hand-crushed peanut butters Mark had encountered in the rural farming community in Zimbabwe where he served in the Peace Corps in the 1990s. Inspired to recreate the African nut butter, Mark began roasting and milling nuts in his home kitchen, and then turned the enterprise into a business.
Big Spoon Roasters crafts the nut butter in small batches, roasting the nuts and measuring the ingredients to the gram. The roasted nuts are milled into a coarse nut butter, which is then mixed with other ingredients, like sea salt and raw wildflower honey. Jars are filled and labeled by hand. Their website boasts, “The only way to get fresher nut butter is to make it yourself.”
We have chai spice and vanilla peanut sorghum nut butters (look for them in our specialty department, near the cheese), as well as apricot pepita and cherry pecan nut butter bars. Try them all in stores this weekend: Friday, July 29 from 4-7 PM in Southern Village, Saturday, July 30 from 11 AM-2 PM in Carrboro, and Sunday, July 31 from 11 AM-2 PM in Hillsborough.
Visit Big Spoon Roasters online at http://bigspoonroasters.com/. If you want to read dozens of articles about how good the nut butter is, see their press page: http://bigspoonroasters.com/press/.
This post was originally posted on July 7, 2016.