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Crafting a Brand

image courtesy of http://gotcraft.com/ “Genuine as a fingerprint” was the caption in Andy Warhol’s year book. This is a man who knew...

Daytripper – E.L.I.

True, we are past Labor Day but don’t count out Sag Harbor and Shelter Island for your weekend retreat. This is the best time of the year...

NYIGF – 2012

NYIGF 2012 I know that it is hard to remember now that summer has come and gone, but the NY Gift Fair took place near the end of August...

Loco for Local

How do you Eat Local? During my recent trip to Seattle I happened upon a great market place called Eat Local. They make prepaired frozen...

Freshly Roasting

Since American Bulldog Coffee Roasters are relatively new to the coffee world (you may know them as Bowery Coffee), their approach is...

Hot Time for a Frozen Treat!

This years hottest treats are the frozen handmade ice pops named Citysticks! You can’t beat these frozen treats! This is a fresh summer...

Opening: New Resto Calliope

Calliope restaurant is named for a species of hummingbird, but it was, incidentally, also the name of the Greek muse said to have...

Big Love

Do you support Polygamy…in vendor relations? The idea to use multiple coffee roasters to supply a cafe or restaurant seems to be a fairly...

Day Tripper: Great Barrington, MA

If you were heading to the Hamptons and took a quick turn at the Throgs Neck bridge, hopped on the Taconic and took it all the way to the...

Coffee Tasting for Winos

sniffers…. The wine community has a great history and well earned reputation for pretension and overly ceremoniously sniffing, swirling...

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