“When I was in Chiapas a couple of years ago, a woman came up to me in the market with samples of her home-produced chocolate roasted with peanuts and cinnamon.” “I usually run toward threats, not away,” offered Ferra Coffee’s owner Susan Jaime. She was talking about the fact that in her dealings with growers…
Joe Carmack’s East Side plantings
A wandering landscape artist makes a home in Denver Heights Joe Carmack wants to plant orchards. Urban orchards. Orchards composed not of apples in the pioneering-America-of-legend sense, but mostly of citrus—with a pomegranate or two here and there. “They do well in San Antonio,” he says. But for the moment he’s focused on a…
The boys of Lick ice cream ditched the corporate life for artisanal ice-cream heaven
“On our first date I told Chad that I would be moving back to Texas in five years,” Anthony says. That conversation took place in New York City in 2005, and Anthony Sobotik and Chad Palmatier hit the target dead-on, arriving in the Lone Star State, with a stopover in Ohio, of all places, in…