My last post was about the weekly food boxes we had been receiving full of delicious local produce. It was my intention to periodically write about our experiences with this food and to share some recipes. But alas, our supplier of food boxes, Culinarium, suddenly closed last week! This was completely unexpected news to us, and very disappointing. We had been thoroughly enjoying our food boxes.

To make matters worse, we were not able to get refunds for the food boxes we had purchased in advance, because Culinarium is now bankrupt. However, we were able to use some of our remaining credit pick up a few final things at the store, and so we got some fun items that we would not normally buy.

I was initially angry after hearing that we wouldn’t get our money back. But the owner was extremely apologetic, and in the end it is just a crappy situation all around. It really is too bad that Culinarium could not reach the critical mass necessary for success.

I don’t think we will be signing up for another food box program anytime soon. But I am really interested in checking out some different farmers markets across the city, and hope to visit a new one each week during the next month.