- June 7th, 2012
- lisa
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Not exactly ‘sugar,’ this bag of brown goodness is the culmination of over 500 years of hard work and labor put in by the Mexican peoples. The artistry and back-breaking...
- May 29th, 2012
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- Comments Off on Ethereal Confections – Akasha, One Bar to Rule Them All
The sheer myriad of chocolate bars seem to make choosing one a task in and of it self. Well, Ethereal Confections‘ Askasha Bars will help. These bars don’t hide anything, and we...
- May 23rd, 2012
- lisa
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We’ve been carrying the ever delicious Mama’s Nuts! for some time and now that their spring collection is hitting our shelves, we wanted to spotlight their new, tasty line. Starting...
- May 18th, 2012
- lisa
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Southport Grocery has been canning for a few years now. Growing more ‘hungry’ each year, trying to capture spring, summer, fall – the harvest seasons packed into tiny jars. Recently,...
- May 16th, 2012
- lisa
- Comments Off on Our Cheesy Love – Prairie Pure Cheese
In our first edition of ‘Our Cheesy Love’ we are headed out toward Rockford where they hold the keys (and cows) to some of the best tasting Butterkäse we could find,...
- May 14th, 2012
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During the brightly colored neon adventures of the eighties, a small pasta company cropped up in the midst of grocery store shelves full of cardboard boxes stuffed with ‘enriched’ elbow macaroni and...
- May 5th, 2012
- lisa
- Comments Off on Southport Grocery & Cafe’s Chilaquiles
Sometimes we can get a bit verbose here on our blog – we admit it. But with one of our newest items we thought we’d let the picture do most...
- April 30th, 2012
- lisa
- Comments Off on Bedell Winery Cabernet Franc – Food-kind Wine
Sandwiched between the Atlantic ocean and Long Island Sound, on the northern fork split by a chain of bays, is a sustainable winery situated in a place unlike many others....
- April 27th, 2012
- lisa
- Comments Off on New Rancho Gordo Beans – A Lovely Legume Trio
We’ve professed our love for Rancho Gordo beans before even going out of way to visit them when we were last in California. Just recently, we’ve pulled in three new varietals...
- April 26th, 2012
- lisa
- Comments Off on SPG Featured Artist – Alise Barrett
You may have noticed some changes in the way of art at SPG, maybe even making your way to our first Drink Up Art event. One of our great staff,...