Karen | September 27, 2010
Tom and Sue Maurer (Tom’s the Emporium’s manager) stopped at a country store in Ontario, Canda, on vacation this month. They were stocking up to spend a couple of days at a fishing camp and got talking to the proprietor, Rita Stoller. She and her husband, Walter, came to Canada from Switzerland 30 years ago [...]
Karen | September 22, 2010
Fresh food and good health go together, all the way to the seasoning or sweetening stage. As part of the Emporium’s alternatives to refined sugar sweeteners, we’re introducing XyloSweet, starting Friday, September 24. XyloSweet®, a xylitol-based sweetener, is the sweetest of all bulk sugar substitutes. Currently used in many sugar-free products, XyloSweet is increasingly gaining [...]
Karen | September 14, 2010
The Emporium is about farm fresh food and tasty eating. Components of tasty eating are found not only on the vegetable tables, but on the market’s shelves. We have a growing assortment of seasonings, sweeteners, jellies and other flavor enhancers. From Christina Maser, of Lancaster, we’re offering apricot, lime, blueberry and peach basil jellies. We’ve [...]
Karen | September 8, 2010
Tom had five varieties of apples at the Emporium last week, and figures to do so again this week. It’s the height of the apple season, and the start of the fall harvest, with squashes on hand and pumpkins on the horizon (not this week, though). The apples are likely to be McIntosh, Cortland, Molly [...]
