Local & regional producers whose
products we
proudly carry:
Pika's Quiche ~ quiches, large & small, and
soups
Catskill Mountain Coffee ~
fair trade, organic, fresh whole bean coffees
Chenango Historic Cheese ~
organic artisan sharp raw cheddar
Flying Rabbit Farm
~ organic produce in season
Sherman Hill
~ fresh chevre'
Evans Farmhouse Creamery ~
organic non-homogenized milk and other dairy products
Clem Murphy ~ raw honey,
comb honey, beeswax candles
Wilbur Mountain Maple
~ maple syrup
Whole in the Wall Pesto
Brook-Lane Farm ~
pasture-raised ground beef
Down To Earth Delectables ~ homemade giant cookies (vegan, too)
Quantum Herbals ~ herb
tinctures of unsurpassed quality & potency
Alicia Benoist,
potter ~
majolica, made a few miles away
Heirloom Botanicals ~
nourishing, wholesome skin care
"In town, Ed
and I are beginning to feel more at home. We
try to buy everything right in the local shops:
hardware, electrical transformers, contact lens
cleaner, mosquito candles, film. We do not
patronize the cheaper supermarket in Camucia; we go
from the bread store to the fruit and vegetable
shop, to the butcher, loading everything into our
blue canvas shopping bags. Maria Rita starts
to go in back of her shop and bring out the
just-picked lettuces, the choice fruit.
Buy
local -
the resources you grow
will be your own
©
"Oh, pay me tomorrow," she
says if we only have large bills. In the post
office, our letters are affixed with several stamps
by the postmistress then individually hand-canceled
with vengeance, whack, whack, "Buon giorno,
signori." At the crowded little grocery
store, I count thirty-seven kinds of dried pasta
and, on the counter, fresh gnocchi, pici,
thick pasta in long strands, fettuccine and two
kinds of ravioli. By now they know what kind
of bread we want, that we want the bufala,
buffalo milk mozzarella, not the normale,
regular cow's milk kind."
~ From Under
the Tuscan Sun © 1996 by
Frances Mayes Published by
Chronicle Books |
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