
As we enter the holiday season we want to thank you for all of your incredible support over the past two years. We started Pop-Up General Store on a lark, because we missed cooking for our community after we closed Eccolo restaurant in 2009. With little more than a short list of email subscribers and a passion for pasta and sausages, we began offering the fruits of our labor to friends who missed the foods we love to cook.
The initial response was incredible! Quickly realizing that the two of us had no way to keep up with demand, we began to expand the market by inviting our friends to offer their own specialties, and suddenly we found ourselves managing a growing artisan food market!
The way the Pop-Up has grown since its inception has exceeded our hopes and expectations in every way: by bringing so many new friends into our circle, by allowing us to promote colleagues whose products we believe in, and by serving you the foods we know you love. Never could we have dreamt that we’d receive this much positive attention for simply doing the work we love to do!
The Pop-Up General Store has been a labor of love from the start, and we’ve consistently struggled with balancing the needs of our community, neighbors, customers and vendors with our own. It’s been a wonderful, difficult, topsy-turvy path of trial and error for us to figure out how to best serve everyone, and we appreciate the adventurous spirit with which all of you have approached the project.
Now, in an effort to turn our attention to other projects (for Chris, making salumi and cured meats on a larger scale, and for Samin, writing and teaching cooking classes), we have decided to end the current incarnation of Pop-Up General Store at the end of the year. We will undoubtedly turn up again eventually, and encourage you to stay in touch with us by following our personal blogs, Facebook pages, and Twitter feeds. If and when we reappear, we will resurrect the current email list to contact all of you. If you do not wish to be contacted by us in the future, please feel free to unsubscribe using the buttons at the bottom of this email.
As we end this two year cycle, we’ll offer two final holiday-themed Pop-Ups, one for Thanksgiving on November 22nd and one for the winter holidays on December 14th. Please mark your calendars and plan to join us for these last two markets, as they promise to be joyous and filled with will all of our Pop-Up favorites.
Together with the following vendors, we have put together a fantastic list of items and dishes perfect for your Thanksgiving table:
Please click on over to our online store to see a description what each vendor is offering, and to place your pre-order.
Pre-order and pay for your items by noon on Sunday, November 20th, then come visit our pop-up location in the historic Temescal streetcar depot that houses Grace Street Catering. We’ll be there Tuesday, November 22nd from 5pm to 7pm awaiting your arrival! We’ll have lots of extras for sale, so feel free to pop in even if you don’t place an order!
Don’t forget your reusable shopping bags! And please remember, for day-of purchases, we can only accept cash or checks at this time.
We’ve been overwhelmed by all of your love and support, and thank you from the bottom of our hearts!
Best,
Chris & Samin