Monthly Archives: November 2008

Could Lagniappe be a Solution?

Instead of focusing on ‘cutting back’, maybe one solution to keeping your employees and customers happy, and attracting new ones, is laniappe. Thanks to one of our customers from New Orleans, it’s become one of my favorite words.

Fresh Pumpkin Muffins

Fresh Pumpkin Muffins We cleaned and cooked pumpkins for our famous Fresh Pumpkin Cheesecake again this year, and found we had some leftover puree. I like to make muffins for one of our customers on Saturdays as lagniappe (see my other post) and decided to add the pumpkin. They were very tasty! If you are…

Recycle your cardboard

Our vanilla supplier, Nielsen-Massey, just switched to using all recycled corrugated containers for their shipping. Does that really matter? Here’s a quick factoid: For every ton of corrugated cardboard that is recycled, this preserves 17 trees, 463 gallons of oil, and 3 cubic yards of landfill space. If a ton sounds like a big number…