Posts Categorized: Food & Drink

Traverse Bay Farms Ships Fresh Cherries

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It’s cherry season in Northern Michigan. We are in the midst of cherry season in the Traverse Bay Farms region of Michigan. This means fresh cherries may still be available for shipping nationwide. Did you know, the Northwestern lower peninsula of Michigan grow over 65% of all of the Montmorency tart cherries in the United… Read more »

If You Roast It, They Will Come: griin’s Micro-Roaster Solution is deployed at Google For Startups TLV

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griin offers an on-site countertop coffee roaster. This solution, dubbed by Vending Market Watch as a “game-changer”, will be available at the Israeli branch of Google for Startups for the enjoyment of their residents and their many visitors.  The Office Coffee Services (OCS) operator Keren Kedem-Rosenberg stated, “There is a growing trend for offices to… Read more »

Ron Gustafson, Third Generation Patriarch of Coast Packing Company and Community Leader Across L.A.’s Business and Cultural Landscape, Dies at 78

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Ronald “Ron” Rieder Gustafson, President of Coast Packing Company (Coast) and third-generation patriarch of the business his family founded in 1922, died peacefully surrounded by his family on June 25 at 78. In his more than half century at the company, Ron was instrumental in transforming Coast into a leading supplier of edible fats and… Read more »

Coast Packing Co. to Mark #NationalBeefTallowDay With Fourth Annual #BeefTallowFrenchFries ‘Tweet-to-Win’ Contest

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Back for another helping, the Fourth Annual #BeefTallowFrenchFries “Tweet-to-Win” Contest kicks off on July 5th, a fitting lead-in to #NationalBeefTallowDay on July 13, Coast Packing Company announced today. Coast is once again hungry for the public’s most poetic/ecstatic/witty/tasty tweets proclaiming their desire for beef tallow (that is, beef fat) French fries.  Back in the day,… Read more »