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 [...]
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 | August 24, 2010
At 3:40 this afternoon, Tom Maurer’s shipment of wild caught salmon from Alaska arrived. It was as though Jenn Kurian, of Bloomsburg, was driving an old-fashioned Good Humor truck, a bit larger perhaps, and this one was labeled “Wild for Salmon.” That’s the name of the fishery company Jenn operates with her husband, Steve. They’ve [...]
Karen | August 17, 2010
As we move through this growing season, it’s not too early to start thinking about next year. One of the key parts of the Emporium’s mission is to sell foods with high nutritional value. These nutrients come from the soil. If they are not in the soil they will not be in the plant unless [...]
Karen | August 4, 2010
The apple season may open in full force this week. Tom Maurer isn’t quite sure, but be looking for more fresh-picked apples at the Emporium. And there will be the usual array of tomatoes, greens, berries and other farm products. As August advances, it’s becoming time to envision what the Emporium will be like in [...]
Karen | August 2, 2010
Know about Mrs. Wages sauces? The Emporium has added Mrs. Wages Tomato Sauce mixes to its shelf goods selections. The pasta sauce makes for great spaghetti! Watch, though, because a single envelope (and the accompanying tomatoes) yields five pints of sauce. You might want to use an envelope, say, a third or half at a [...]
Karen | July 29, 2010
I’ve been reintroduced to raw milk at The Emporium. “Real milk” is probably a better, more descriptive term. It’s milk directly from cows at permitted dairy farms that hasn’t been pasteurized. Hadn’t drunk it for years until Tom Maurer gave me a sample at the Emporium. It’s been three weeks now since we switched to [...]
