The coop is now carrying organic, local corn tortillas from Hot Bread Kitchen. These tortillas are made by immigrant women who are trained in Hot Bread Kitchen's artisanal kitchen, with a focus on "creating a network of female entrepreneurs." These tortillas are made with nothing but locally sourced corn, and a touch of lime. You can really taste the fresh sweet flavor of the corn. HBK recommends that you keep these tortillas in the freezer, and pop them out as needed, in order to maintain maximum freshness, and increase their shelf life. Check out HBK's website for more information about the good (and delicious work) that this non-profit organization is doing: www.hotbreadkitchen.org You can find these tortillas in the dairy case all the way to the right, near the tortillas we currently sell. As usual, these handmade local goods are a steal here at the coop, and well worth it!
O'Banon is an Indiana version of a French Favorite. Hand-ladled and then wrapped in chestnut leaves soaked in Woodford Reserve Bourbon, O'Banon is lighter than it's French counterpart and fresher tasting. O'Banon is creamy and dense with a unique flavor that leaves a crisp bite on the palate.
Sofia is a dense and supremely tangy chevre that is beautifully marbled with ash. The soft gray whorls and undulations of vegetable ash make slices of this dense cheese a stunning addition to a cheese plate.
Blood oranges available now at the Food Coop no matter how old your hand is.
Bliss, loosely based on a Chaource 
recipe, a slow ripened lactic cheese.
delightful, delicate little organic cheese with a fluffy whipped texture and big farm fresh flavor made by the Scholten family farm. Did I say Organic already?
And, last but not least, we have Hartwell by Ploughgate creamery. A soft-ripened little guy that is creamy and delicious.
Our other chickens are all broiler/fryers. They're young and tender. They're for roasting, broiling, grilling, sauteeing, and frying. The stewing hens, though....when it's cold outside, when there's a dark drizzly rain coming down, that's when they come into their own.
Just in time for Christmas. The second incarnation of the Brooklyn Black Ops is now on the shelf. It's a really limited release so, get it while you can.
I love the tart beers and tend to serve them as the champagne course. They play well with the wine crowd and are more affordable than the usual champagnes or white wines that are recommended for appetizers and salads. All of these beers are relatively low in alcohol, another plus when you have a lot of merrymaking ahead of you.
Here is a shortlist of what will rotate on one corner of the display beer rack, more description to follow:
Organic, locally grown brussels sprout stalks are $1.87 a stalk at the food coop. We have hundreds of stalks. I bought a stalk yesterday morning and it barely fits in my fridge. There are 3 brussels sprout recipes in the 101 Thanksgiving recipes article in the New York Times, so stock up on stalks.
Grab a glass of O.J. before rushing out the house each morning? Persuade your kids to drink one too? Buy Tropicana because it is not made from concentrate? "Not from concentrate" seems to be a term of art--it actually is pasteurized, stripped of oxygen and stored in huge aseptic tanks. When it is packaged for sale, "flavor derived from orange essence and oils is added to make it taste fresh," according to Alissa Hamilton, whose book, Squeezed: What You Don't Know about Orange Juice, has just been published by Yale Press. The citrus juice industry is dominated by Pepsi (Tropicana) and Coca Cola (Minute Maid), and the juice is increasingly being imported from Brazil.
VOTE! T-SHIRT! CONTEST! VOTE! T-SHIRT! CONTEST! VOTE! T-SHIRT! CONTEST!
The entries are in for the Coop’s first-ever T-shirt design contest, and now it’s time for you to vote for your favorite(s).
Check out the entries and vote online or in person at the Coop.
The winning design will be made into a T-shirt to be sold at the Coop in time for the holidays! (Did we mention the lucky winner gets a year’s worth of FTOP shifts?)
Just North of the San Francisco Bay, Mt. Tamalpais rises like a monument to Northern California's natural beauty. In deference, Cowgirl Creamery named its signature cheese MT TAM. It's a smooth, creamy, elegant, 10-oz, triple-cream - made with tasty organic milk from the Straus Family Dairy. MT TAM is firm, yet buttery with a mellow, earthy flavor reminiscent of white mushrooms.
Cowgirl Creamery captures the essence of West Marin with its Red Hawk, a triple-cream, washed-rind, fully-flavored cheese made from organic cow's milk from the Straus Family Dairy. Aged six weeks and washed with a brine solution that promotes the growth of a bacteria that tints the rind a sunset red-orange, Red Hawk won Best-In-Show at the American Cheese Society's Annual Conference in 2003.
Carmody is an artisanal cow's milk cheese made with the milk from Jersey cows. The cheese is aged for at least 6 weeks. This gourmet cheese has a golden color, a smooth texture and a wonderful flavor with buttery intensity. As it ages the flavor becomes sweeter with hints of caramel.
Rich and buttery with stiff notes of tart yeast to balance it, Crescenza is modeled after the centuries-old Italian cheese, Stracchino di Crescenza. Bellwether's Crescenza is a soft-ripened cow's milk cheese without a rind to hold back the luscious ooze. Spread it over crackers, bread, fruit -- anything you want imbued with creamy intensity.
