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Red Couch opens; Gambardella’s closes (for breakfast)

Posted in Downtowns, Food and eating, Local businesses on July 2, 2009 | 2 Comments »

I write this from the latest treasure to open downtown: Red Couch Trading Post, where I write on my laptop while enjoying a blueberry cream-cheese cake, a cinnamon pull-apart (a small monkey bread), and a coffee.
Red Couch is part cafe, part bakery, part deli, and part convenience store. They have a simple deli counter, [...]

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New local slaughterhouse: Tanana Valley Meats opens

Posted in Food and eating, Local businesses on June 23, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Good news, locavores: according to an article in Tuesday’s News-Miner, we now have another option to buy meat from locally raised and slaughtered animals.  Tanana Valley Meats has been certified by the USDA to slaughter cattle and hogs, and they will start butchering and retail sales immediately, in the site once operated by B-Y Farms [...]

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