Edible Austin, is a gorgeously produced free magazine spotlighting local awesome eating possibilities for Austin foodies. This week they’re sponsoring Eat Local Week with two excellent goals in mind — to help “Central Texans to explore and celebrate the abundance of local food and to raise money for Urban Roots, a youth development program that [...]

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Vowing to be greener can easily fall into that easy-to-talk-about-hard-to-implement category right alongside losing weight, quitting smoking, and managing money better. Nice to contemplate but a bitch to execute.
And even some of the attempts we do make don’t always pan out so well. For instance, I really wonder about all those reusable bags people are [...]

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So, how green are you in the kitchen? The Sierra Club has a 10-question online quiz you can take to find out. LaunchPad Coworking team members scored all over the board with Michael bringing home a 35 out of a possible 100 (keep trying Michael!) and Tina, not surprisingly, with a high score of 80. [...]

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On a recent, lovely Sunday afternoon, Julie, Michael, Tina and I headed out to Bastrop to visit our friends, Sue Beckwith and Jules Assata, owners of Shades of Green Farm. Julie and I have known Sue just this side of forever through high-tech ventures. These days Sue and Jules are in the chicken business, raising [...]

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So we started working on menu ideas nearly a year ago. We’ve had tastings and brainstorming sessions. We’ve ruled items in and we’ve ruled them out. And the one thing that’s continually stumping our panel is COLESLAW.
Now, we’re sure we want coleslaw on the menu, so that’s not the issue. But we have yet to [...]

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David Bollier posted a thoughtful piece, Why the Hype About Local Food May Be More than Just a Trend, at OnTheCommons recently about the movement to encourage eating more locally produced food. In his piece, he cites a recent New York Times article about how some rich folks, wanting to eat local but not wanting [...]

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We recently got our hands on a copy of the 30 minute DVD, Café Monteverde: Hacia un Comercio Justo, which profiles Cooperative Santa Elena, Costa Rica’s first sustainable coffee project, started in 1989. We’ve got a special interest in the coop, since we’re serving their coffee, Café Monteverde, in our café. That coffee is coming [...]

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Never mind Google’s new Chrome browser — that’s getting plenty of coverage elsewhere. But what’s a smaller-than-Google company to do when it comes to differentiating its wares at a big convention?
Coffeemaker manufacturer Nespresso, in addition to having an auto-play, vaguely porno soundtrack on their home page, came up with a gimmick for the recent IFA [...]

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Way back in December, before we found and happily settled in with Texas Coffee Traders as our local coffee vendor, we went out on a search. And along the way, visiting with another vendor, we had a day of coffee education. This included bean knowledge, roasting facts, latte foam art pointers, the ins and outs [...]

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Some days, my job is just so rough. Today, for example, I was forced to visit with Soraiya Nagree who, along with her husband Azim, co-owns two interlocking businesses, both food focused. What this meant, among other things, is that I wasn’t allowed to leave without taking some brownies with me. (I know, I know, [...]

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