Here’s our super happy FedEx man picking up our boxes under Marie’s watchful eye.
Our summer MARY’s secret ingredients (MSI) boxes sold out last week, way before our closing date of yesterday when they all shipped. They are on their way to all of you who ordered. We’re so excited about this box! It’s got great summer treats and I will be posting more wonderful recipes and ideas to use the products, making your BBQ and summer party days ahead a breeze. It turns out that this box is also gluten-free for those of you concerned with this area of your intake, but you would never know it, as everything is so delicious!
I read an editorial by Mark Bittman in the The New York Times yesterday. He was talking about the use of the word “foodies” and how it makes him cringe. How about you? Does it make you cringe too? Are you a “foodie” in search of the next hot restaurant? Or do you like to cook at home to be able to know exactly what you’re putting into your body? Or are you concerned about changing our eating habits or our whole society on the way food is produced, transported and eaten? He brings up some really valid points on all of this.
And then there was this other article I read just last week about how everyone is beating the drum about only eating local, farmer’s market food and really, that’s a very nice idea but you can’t feed a country our size this way. So they were suggesting using a combination of technology (think Wylie Dufresne or new versions of freeze dried) and local, to go way beyond the Alice Waters philosophy.
All are good ideas in my book. Anything that gets us back in the kitchen and makes us fully aware, to want to know what we’re putting into this delicate machine that is our bodies, is a great idea.
Which brings us back to our MSI box. Our whole concept here is to showcase new natural, good-for-you products that will surprise and inspire you and your cooking with fresh ideas to feed your body and keep it healthy. And if you cook with LOVE, you feed your soul too! Happy eating!!!
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Good luck with your excellent project. With regard to the other points…I dislike the word “foodie” intensely and I can see why the NY Times journalist cringes at any sign of it. I’m with you on the insanity of suggesting that we all buy from our local markets..that’s just not going to work. The supermarkets have made real produce appear so expensive that the small market gardeners will all soon be out of business. That’s what it looks like here in deep French countryside.
Thanks Roger – terrible to hear what’s going on in your neck of the woods!
Wow look at all those boxes, curious to see the content. I cringe more at the misuse of the word foodie!
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The box contents are always a surprise – we reveal only after everyone has received them. Thanks Evelyne!
Mary Frances, thats fantastic, so happy this venture is so successful, it really is wonderful. Can’t wait to get my Fall box.
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Suzanne, the fall box is going to be extraordinary!! Thank you so much for your support – and the support for Feed The Children!
I’m SO pleased to hear your new venture is a rousing success. I knew it would be from the start. You don’t do anything by halves!
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Thanks Maureen!!!! You’re a peach!! 🙂
Well done and congratulations!
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Thanks Tandy!! So sweet of you to say!!
Brilliant! Well done.
🙂 Mandy xo
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Thanks so much Mandy!!
I like your Quick Coconut Chicken Curry – may make it this week!
Congratulations!
ela h.
Thanks Ela!! 🙂
I am a foodie, and proud of it! 🙂
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You go girl!! 🙂
Foodie, food lover, gourmande… what the hell? who cares? Obviously mark bittman does, but I’d like to know why.
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I think the overuse of it and the confused definition has become irritating to professionals in the field.
I love your rib recipe in the Newsletter. Have to try it soon.
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Oh I’m so glad Jovina!! How did your ribs turn out on Memorial Day with the Sweetwater Spice Brine – did you use it?
Congrats on your new venture. I’m so glad it’s a big success. I really do agree with eating local, fresh produce sourced by family farmers rather than food served up by big corporations xx
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I am totally in your camp, Charlie, but it’s just not possible to feed everyone like that, unfortunately. We’ve got to find some happen medium, sans the chemicals and hormones.
Congratulations on such a exiting step! Wishing you the best of luck!
Thank you Afra!!
Thats fab new Mary! Congrats!
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Thanks Francesca!!