Adventures in running a web-based food business
We have a smorgasbord of vinegar samples and we need a few Seattle bloggers to help us taste them. You get to help us decide which varieties to carry! There are a lot of flavors, including Walnut Champagne, D’Anjou Pear and Golden Balsamic, just to name a few… If you want to take a couples …
Just got back from Chicago where I dropped in on a couple of our vendors (and shot some mediocre photos on my camera phone). First up was one of our suppliers of bulk pantry goods. I have always regarded them as having top notch quality and touring through their new facility I learned a couple …
To say I am ecstatic that Marx Foods is featured in the July issue of Food & Wine magazine doesn’t cover it. After a few phone interviews with Kristin Donnelly and staging an elaborate photo shoot to submit images for the article (like the one below), all we could do was wait eagerly to see …
Once a month, we put on a big production of a photo shoot with our executive chef. It has gotten to be a bigger production than the last time I wrote about it, but we still follow the same basic formula. Those shoots are orderly and we reliably churn out about 15 impeccable recipes in …
It’s been a busy few months of Travel for Ryan in San Fransisco & Portland; and me in LA, New York, Chicago, Vancouver, and New Zealand. It’s hard to say whether the travel was for business or pleasure anymore because my life’s work and pleasure is increasingly merging into one. It’s a good thing that …
I’m an uncle as of March 11th! And the Marx family now has the 6th generation to groom for the family business. That means that as soon as he can push a broom, that cute little dude is headed straight to the warehouse. We are big fans of child labor in this family. Lucky for …
We’re expanding our inventory and have a ton of new samples to try (we mean it; there must be at least 50 100 items on our shelves waiting to be tasted!) We have everything from chocolate to pickles to hot sauce to walnut oil…but we’re going to need some help tasting it all. We’d like …
A few customers asked us for our thoughts on this story in Forbes. Here you go: It is important that people ask questions about their food. Period. End of Story. If more people made a habit of asking questions about what they eat, then our country would be a whole lot healthier. In that vein, …
There are many kinds of virginity. Thank goodness that being married doesn’t preclude me from taking a particular kind of virginity. Men, women, children, seniors … whatever. When it comes to getting people to eat their first oyster, I am king. I have a fetish for taking people’s oyster virginity. I looooove it. I wish …
I didn’t expect to have so much to say about touring a meat packing plant and slaughterhouse. After taking a walk down memory lane, describing what wasn’t there and offering an analogy, I just can’t shut up. Here, I try to explain what it was like to be in this New Zealand beef packing plant. …
Did I mention that our office pack is a riot? While they get plenty of treats around here, they are also not immune to my taunts. It was way too funny when I teased them with this Grass-fed Ribeye. They certainly ended up getting some scraps after I sliced it up and sampled for our …
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The New Zealand countryside is pastoral and beautiful. The animals are clean, calm and healthy. Never before have I looked at a herd of cattle and been struck by the beauty. Beauty in the aesthetic, but also in the simplicity. Of course, livestock management is remarkably complex and above my head, but fundamentally it is …
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