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Durham Bulls Partnership in Full Swing
by durham, June 17, 2009 | Permalink
The Whole Foods Market team is having a blast at the Durham Bulls Tuesday home games this season! We are the 9 inning vacation sponsor, making it possible for all fans to get two tickets for the price of one at every Tuesday home game all summer long!
There are 3 main components of the Tuesday home games partnership. The first is the twofer tickets described above. The second is a food drive component. Bring to a Tuesday home game, any 365 Everyday Value brand food product from Whole Foods Market to donate to the Food Bank of Eastern NC, and the Durham Bulls will give you a free Bulls Cap! It’s a sweet deal for everyone involved! We’ve collected as much as 500 pounds of food for the Food Bank at one Tuesday night game!
The third component of the partnership brings in local business and community support opportunities. Three special Tuesday home games will have even more excitement in tow around this theme:
Tuesday, July 7 - Edible Piedmont will co-sponsor the game and give out free copies of their wonderful magazine that features local farmers and producers in and around the Piedmont of NC. Join us that night to get your copy of Edible Piedmont.
Tuesday, August 4 - Local Food Tasting Night - Come out to sample fabulous products from some of our favorite local vendors. The Pound Cake Company, Accidental Baker and Larry’s Beans are just a few of those who will join us. Gates open at 6 pm and we’ll have the samples ready!
Tuesday, September 1 - Communities in Schools of Durham Partnership Night - On the last Tuesday night home game of the season the Durham Bulls will donate $1 from every ticket sale to Communities in Schools to help increase their programming for the coming school year.
June 2: Gluten-free Fair
by durham, May 28, 2009 | Permalink
Living with a gluten-allergy or Celiac Disease can be frustrating and challenging. One of our team members at Whole Foods Market, Lee Tobin, is one of the many people who lives with Celiac Disease and deals with those challenges every day! While a team member in our Chapel Hill store, Lee began experimenting with Gluten-free baking on his time, developing recipes that revaled conventional goods in flavor and texture! Lee’s committment to creating high quality gluten free products that also met the Whole Foods Market Quality Standards is the reason that the Whole Foods Market Gluten Free Bakehouse came to be OCtober of 2004.
We are proud to offer many items from the Gluten Free Bakehouse in our store here in Durham, and are thrilled to welcome Lee’s team here next Tuesday, June 2 from 3:00 - 6:00 to demo some of their products and answer any questions our customers may have about the Gluten Free Bakehouse!
And they won’t be alone in their gluten-free demoing! We’re turning their appearance into a Gluten-Free Fair, featuring 6 other demos of wonderful gluten-free goodies. So, join us from 3:00 - 6:00 next Tuesday and leave feeling like your choices aren’t quite so limited when shopping for gluten-free items!
It was All About Beer! Local Beer… and local food!
by durham, May 11, 2009 | Permalink
Our 2nd Bi-Annual Local Dinner was a huge success! In the 1st event last fall, we featured local wine with each local food course. This time, we featured local beer! We were honored to have Julie Johnson as our special guest host from All About Beer Magazine to guide us through each beer selection. She was an excellent presenter and everyone enjoyed her humor as well as her knowledge!
Our Head Chef, Bobby, prepared Local Strawberry Flambe on the dining room floor, which then topped local Maple View Dairy Ice Cream! It was a spectacular show to have fire on the floor!
Other local items on the menu included blue-deviled eggs, Sandy Creek Goat Cheese, mild Italian sausage, tenderloin, Poulet Rouge, and local catfish. We’re looking forward to our next Local Dinner in the fall. Watch our website for dates; it will likely be in early October and we would LOVE to wow you with our next spectacular show of local food and drink!
A Toast to Durham Beer Lovers
by durham, April 8, 2009 | Permalink
Durham beer drinkers, rejoice! You have a bounty of delicious beer drinking options in your backyard. We are blessed to have some of the most talented beer makers in the world producing from a NC zip code.
From Highland Brewing Co., to Duck Rabbit, to Carolina Brewery, NC beer wins award after award for originality, quality, and it’s only getting better with new additions coming soon. Our town also boast great places to buy and enjoy beer that is not just watery and yellow.
But this entry is not about the makers, it’s about the drinkers.
Durham Whole Foods Market beer shoppers need to know what they are a part of. Since I have worked in the beer world for the last (almost) year, and certainly participated enough on the consumer end of it, I have gotten to know some excellent beer people and have met many brewery and distribution company representatives. And guess what - they all LOVE Durham and its beer drinkers. Be proud to be part of a beer elite - not beer snobs, mind you, but a market that is seriously loved by all craft brewers in this country. Beer in Durham rivals the scene of other meccas, like California and Michigan (yes, the Yankees know their beer, too). You could blame it on supply, you could blame it on demand. But the perfect storm for beer in NC exists in Durham, and we get to take advantage.
Whole Foods Market in Durham has 20+ local beer selections, and many others worth enjoying as well. And if there’s something you’re looking for that you don’t see, just ask and we’ll be happy to bring it in for you. So when you’re enjoying your next purchase, raise a glass to your Durham brethren. You are a part of something great.
And, as always, support your local brewery. It saves gas, tastes great, and keeps the money in the state!
One way to support local food and your local brewery: attend our bi-annual Local Food Dinner on May 8, featuring a 4-course meal using almost all local ingredients. Each course will be paired with a great local beer too! And a special bonus, meet All About Beer’s Julie Johnson as she talks us through each beer selection.
One Sexy Monk Fish!
by durham, February 18, 2009 | Permalink
Meet Jezebel Monk Fish. Friday the 13th was a very lucky day for Jezebel.
Jezebel Monk Fish had a super exciting Friday the 13th!
She got sweet Valentine’s Day kisses from over 100 Durham locals in our first Annual Valentine’s Kiss A Fish Event. But shhhh… don’t tell Jezebel that all those people were just puckering up for free lobster tail! That’s right. Over 100 people chose to pucker up and lay a big wet one on Jezebel for the chance to get buy-one-get-one-free lobster tails!
We took pictures of all the kissers so that they could take home a commemorative “I kissed a fish” postcard to their sweetheart. Really now… what says “I love you” more than “I kissed a fish for you, honey!”???
If you missed all the fun this year, keep an eye out next year. Jezebel’s cousin is likely to show up for another session in the kissing booth sometime close to Valentine’s Day again next year!
Store Team Leader, Petra Fugger, puckers up to give Jezebel a kiss!
