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TUESDAYS 11 - 3

THURSDAYS 11 -7

FRIDAYS 11 - 3

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DIRECTIONS

What you need to know this week:

1. We will be at the Western Wake Farmers' Market on Saturday from 8:00-12:00.

2. We are NOT planning to be back at The Saturday Market for the remainder of the season.

WEEKLY SPECIALS

Who Dat Blend

New Orleans Coffee

with Chicory

A taste of The Big Easy, right in your kitchen. Our coffee with chicory is the traditional New Orleans recipe found at Cafe Du Monde and other places in the city. Jim's friend Bob Arceneaux, owner of Orleans Coffee Exchange, graciously taught Jim how to blend and roast this coffee, and sells us the chicory we use to blend it. This is the coffee you need to make classic cafe au lait: brew it strong, and mix 50/50 with scalded whole milk.

Special Price: $13.60

1 lb.
SAVE 15%

India

Sethuramen Estate

Liberica Natural

In 2010, Jim made a trip to India, where he cupped coffees at Nishant Gujer's dining room table. NIshant was surprised that Jim liked the Liberica coffee that was more of a nuisance than an asset, because its tall trees required ladders for picking. For the third season since then, we are stocking Nishant's Liberica coffee. Only three bags were imported to the USA this year, and we have one of them. The coffee is unique and extraordinary. Jim favors it as an espresso but it's awesome by any prep.

Special Price: $21.24

8 oz.
SAVE 15%

Happy Thursday!

Last week, we moved our daughters to college in New Orleans. Obviously that was a bittersweet moment, but one of the upsides was the opportunity to enjoy the amazing food culture of that city. And one of the defining features of that food culture is the extraordinary Cafe Du Monde, which uniquely embraces both tourists and locals with an authenticity that is extraordinary in this day and age (not to mention a tiny menu and cash-only policy that is extraordinary in this day and age!). We want to cling to our memories of last weekend for a few more days, so we thought a good way to do so would be to offer our own chicory coffee as one of this week's specials. Whether you've been to New Orleans or not, you'll appreciate the unique and unusual flavors made famous there.

Speaking of unique and unusual, this week we cracked open our bag of India Sethuramen Estate Liberica Natural coffee. Some of you may recall this coffee as a find from Jim's 2010 trip to India - we imported the first bag ever to the USA, and the total crop this year was just three bags. It's really difficult coffee to describe. Many of you know Jim's favorite parlor trick is to map coffee flavors to wines - well, this one is a pinotage. Does that help? Probably not, for most people. So our best advice is to buy some and try it, as this is likely to be the ONLY time we offer it at a special price (pick up some pinotage from Triangle Wine Company while you're at it). It's extraordinary by any prep method, but Jim enjoys it best as a single-origin, single-estate, single-cultivar espresso.

And while we're on the subject of our kids going off to college, we need to point out that with that transition we lost half of our weekend labor force. We thought about restaffing to keep up with farmers' markets, but we decided against it, and will be dropping The Saturday Market in Boylan Heights. This was a difficult decision. We really like TSM and think of it as "the little market that could". But the fact of the matter is that it is really a break-even market for us, at best (as are most farmers' markets for most vendors, truth be told). We unfortunately cannot justify the commitment of capital and labor to endeavors that are consistently not profitable, which is why the only market we'll be working for the foreseeable future is Western Wake Farmers Market (that one *is* profitable, a rarity, sadly). We are really bummed out by this necessity, but the alternative is to work for free. We're sure you understand.

Enjoy your weekend!

Jim and Debbie

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