Adventures in running a web-based food business
We’ve just added a whole slew of artisan Spanish pantry goods, along with a few Peruvian ingredients to MarxPantry.com. From Spain Spanish Sweets: Blanxart Dark Chocolate with Marcona Almonds Organic 82% Congo Dark Chocolate Organic Spanish Cookies in 4 Flavors More Spanish Ingredients: Paella Sofrito Organic Orange Blossom Honey Organic Native Forest Honey Olivar de …
We’ve been very busy adding new products to the stores for you to enjoy! Here’s a bunch of new Spring produce (most of it wild foraged!) that we’ll be offering as soon as it comes into season. White Yacon Root Crisp & juicy like jicama, but quite sweet, this unusual root stores its starches as …
Merino lamb meat has a unique, more elegant & subtle flavor than conventional lamb without the typical gameyness. Here’s some information about the breed’s history. The Original Spanish Merino – A National Treasure The Merino sheep breed originated in Spain – appearing in records as far back as the 12th century. The prevailing belief appears …
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Conventional/commodity lamb is generally a crossbreed, whereas Merino is a specific breed of sheep cultivated for its premium wool and meat. In this respect it’s analogous to premium beef breeds (like Black Angus) and heritage pork (Kurobuta, Iberico, etc). When compared to common lamb, Merino produce softer, leaner, finer textured & clean flavored meat prized …
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Living in the Pacific Northwest, sometimes it feels like it takes a while for the seasons to fully transition. But once they do? It is on! We get especially excited for autumn to roll around each year so we can pull out some of our favorite cozy foods, drinks, recipes, and ingredients. What are our …
Eating Edible Insects for the first time is something you just don’t forget. Whether we were excited, nervous, or downright queasy about trying these creepy crawly yet super sustainable ingredients, we all lived to tell the tale! Kim: I’d been working here at Marx for two weeks before Justin and Ryan said, “Okay, we’re ready …
Behind the scenes of or Urban Picnic shoot, in which everything could have gone wrong, but nothing actually did. Phew! You know those days when you wake up and just have a feeling that something is going to go wrong? Well, the day of our Urban Picnic photoshoot, I woke up feeling just like that. …
When we launched MarxFoods.com seven years ago, we decided not to sell foie. I never wanted to be big brother, but I also didn’t want to sell products that I didn’t believe in. This is the story of how I came to challenge my convictions. In short, I’ve seen the production of foie ducks, but …
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“Guys – the hatches are all closed, right?” On a sailboat, there are plenty of good times to ask this question: say, right as you’re pushing off from the dock, leaving the marina, or even (if you like to live dangerously) as you’re sailing along on smooth seas. Really, if you think about it, there …
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Recently our team headed out to the nearby Tolt-MacDonald Campground just outside of Seattle to set the scene for some fun camping photos and video content. We had a beautiful sunny day and some delicious food to grill up, including our grass-fed burgers as well as some sausages and hot dogs. I was extra excited …
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A glimpse into what went on behind the scenes at our Summer Entertaining photoshoot… aka, that day we got to cook and eat a ton of delicious food at the beach. It’s not every day that you get to call a charming beach-front house your office for the day. Especially when you live in Seattle. …
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We have no small amount of pride in our hometown of Seattle. There is no shortage of high quality food growers, purveyors, and artisans in this city, but the below is our short list of the places we rely on again and again. Marx Foods Lower Queen Anne This might be like voting yourself Prom …