Karen | October 25, 2010
The Emporium will be celebrating the arrival of the holiday season at a Holiday Open House for its shoppers on Friday and Saturday, November 12 and 13. The celebration’s hours will be noon to six on Friday and 10 to 3 on Saturday, within the Emporium’s usual hours of 8 to 6 on Fridays and [...]
Karen | October 18, 2010
The Emporium is a specialty market with an accent on freshness. You’ll find items here you won’t find anywhere else, unless on a farm itself. Sometimes Tom Maurer himself is surprised by what he’s offering on his Friday and Saturday market days. Last week, for instance, in addition to Tom Maurer’s local produce rounds, Tom [...]
Karen | October 14, 2010
Fall has its own array of farm products and they’ll all be at the Emporium this week – apples, potatoes, cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower, onions, squash, along with lettuces, Swiss chard and fall radishes. Tom Maurer is finding himself extra busy as the Emporium evolves. Besides keeping the tables, shelves and refrigerators stocked for the Friday [...]
Karen | October 7, 2010
For this weekend, the Emporium is adding yellow-gold apples from the Eli and Gingrich orchard on the Palmyra-Bellegrove road. And building on Tom Maurer’s newly acquired mastery of baking Swiss braided bread with spelt flour, there will also be freshly baked cinnamon-raisin spelt bread and spelt hamburger buns. The Emporium will be smelling of freshly [...]
Karen | October 6, 2010
Tom Maurer is baking Swiss braided bread at the Emporium with a new twist (you might say). He’s using spelt wheat flour in the recipe he got last month from Rita Stoller in Canada. Originally Middle Eastern, spelt is an ancient forerunner of modern wheat and has a nuttier and slightly sweeter flavor. Spelt has [...]
