Amid a steep rise in pork prices this year, one small purveyor of pork buns in Beijing found a way to keep prices down and sales high substitute cardboard.
The investigative report, which first aired on July 8, captured how a small purveyor of pork buns in Beijing soaking used cardboard softened with water and caustic soda, mixing the cardboard "broth" with pork fat, leeks and soy milk sheets to make baozi, a popular breakfast in Beijing.
Here's what you will find: small purveyors of handcrafted jewelry, purses, soaps, clocks, hand-knitted scarves and hats, art, frames, etc., many of whom run online businesses but have no brick-and-mortar stores.
These rarefied animals not only have superior flavors and a good distribution of fat but also often come from small purveyors like Four Story Farms in Pennsylvania and Vermont Quality Meats Cooperative, which sell meats only by the whole or half-carcass, leaving chefs with plenty of spare parts to experiment on after the chops and tenderloins are sold.
Conceived as a way to connect consumers with home cooks and small-scale purveyors and build a sense of community, the most recent market, held in a SoMa gallery last week, attracted 2,000 attendees and 70 vendors, hawking homemade items like peanut brittle and grass-fed beef jerky.
Mikuni Wild Harvest, which started as a small mushroom purveyor in the early 1980s, has offices in New York, Las Vegas, Seattle and Vancouver and works with chefs like Mario Batali, David Chang and Jöel Robuchon.
The River Café's history of buying from small, organic purveyors long predates the current trend.
Drawn by the city's low rents and artsy vibe, young chefs are breaking the culinary mold and tapping into the Northwestern bounty of local fisheries, small meat purveyors and artisanal farms.
Purchase from a local farm and or small produce purveyors to avoid a product that has been hot housed to preserve.
Small artisanal nut purveyors might tout that they are selling new-crop nuts very recently shelled.
Glassybaby is a creator and purveyor of small hand-blown glass cups used as decoration, vases and candleholders.
