Posted in Where Else ORGANIC? on January 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Raincity Grill
Photographer: Hamid Attie
Any recommendations for “Where Else Organic” in Vancouver and surrounds, like all over the world? Lots of us travel and need to eat when we do! For starters, here are some local choices from our blog readers:
Raincity Grill (1193 Denman Street): Lots of organic products on the menu (80 percent). This [...]
Posted in Where Else ORGANIC? on January 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photo: new Whistler Pocket Chocolate bars
Posted by webrapper.
A new local ORGANIC brand of “pocket chocolates” is now available. The bars are actually 6 inches X 3 inches (larger than the photos above), and are thick and flat and cut into small “pocket-sized” squares. Delicious!
I’ve been looking for other dark chocolate ever since Whole Foods “killed” my favourite [...]
Posted in Them Apples! on January 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Photo: Rene Magritte painting, 1950
Hi Y’all! Adam here with greetings from Co-Opistan! Boy, do I have a bushel of information to share with you. I’ve been thrashing around in Discoverystan for weeks now! You should see how much is out here about “co-operatives.” Tons! But, that’s what I’m out here for: “to dig up [...]
Posted in Where Else ORGANIC?, Where to From Here? on January 25, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Photo: Choices CEO Mark Vickars with 2007 Independent Grocer Award
Photo: Choices Produce (pictured on Choices website)
News: Two of Choices Markets received awards from the Canadian Federation of Independent Grocers in November 2007, Yaletown and Kitsilano.
“Choices Market Kitsilano was named as winner of the Canadian Independent Grocer of the Year Platinum Achievement Award, for TEN consecutive years of Award of Merits signifying [...]
Posted in Where to From Here? on January 21, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Thanks to “Wholey Moley” for the “head’s up” about corporate BRAND KILLING.
I think more and more of us are “sorry it happened this way.” But the irony of Whole Food’s “trash and burn” policy toward small “community” markets is that it’s “waking up” that very same “community,” a few people here, a few there. Me, [...]
