Hi all!

Greetings and good wishes from the middle of October. Can’t say I’m personally wild about winter approaching but the leaves are beautiful and there’s all that great food for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and the holidays coming up.

Congrats to everyone on the Christmas Cookie Club release, the coffee roaster firing up in its new spot, candy bar sales booming across the country, the busiest day in 28 years at the Deli this past weekend, the successful start of welcoming the holiday staff to Mail Order for the season and a few hundred other great accomplishments that I’m failing to list here. While we’ve definitely got some spots that we’re pulling together to build sales in still, overall, things seems to be moving forward in positive ways (I’m generalizing so please know that I know where trends are still tight and am working hard to be of help…). So… although I’m really here to write about food, somehow I let my mind move onto leadership and looking ahead to the coming months. So apologies for that—if you want to get the culinary stuff you can skip down to the bit on baguettes below.
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Hey Everyone

Fall is here in force I guess. Cooler weather, less sun than I’d like to see, tomato season winding down, and days are getting shorter. But hey, there’s lots and lots of good stuff happening too. Construction at the coffee space, chocolate and apricot rugelach out at the Bakeshop, a bunch of good ZingTrain seminars, late fall produce from Cornman and actually way more good foods to write about than I can possibly fit in to these five. Which means more to come soon. Stay tuned.
In the mean time . . . here’s five foods I’ve been focused on for the last few days!

Have fun and eat good food!

ari

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