Friday, February 22, 2013
Take a virtual tour of the staging area in which owner Bobby McVicker says he's going to hold weekly samplings with recipe tryouts, wine pairings and more.
Bobby McVicker is a plant sterol evangelist. A flavor fanatic. An EVOOlutionary. When he opened Blue Moon Premium Olive Oil and Vinegar just before the 2012 holiday season, McVicker told Patch “The things we grew up on, most of the time, they’re not olive oil.” And he swears that once people try his imported olive oils and infused balsamic vinegars that they'll start to imagine different possibilities. So in that spirit, McVicker will open the Blue Moon tasting parlor at 7 p.m. Saturday night, the first of an ongoing series of regular weekend tastings that he hopes will help the curious to see greater possibilities for his ingredients. Tastings after this week will be held at 6:30 and 8 p.m. Fridays and Saturdays. Cheese Etc. will provide …
Monday, February 11, 2013
The garland's come down, and the summer dollars are months away. So what are borough businesses doing to drive traffic in the winter?
Look around your favorite Haddon Avenue shops these days, and you might be surprised at what’s in their inventories. It’s not that they’re carrying anything unusual. But they are carrying more and different items, sharing more products among themselves, and fitting out their displays with products from their neighbors. Like that mint green dress that perfectly matches the swing-arm lamp in the window of Dig This? Surprise, it’s from Frugal Resale (whose monthly ladies night is catered by neighbors at Casona and The Candy Jar). Picking up a bottle or two of olive oil at Blue Moon? You might also go home with a handmade dipping tray produced by local artist Eric Wolff. This kind of cross-promotion helps sustain the flow of business in the …
Saturday, December 8, 2012
The newest food/retail/experience-based business on Haddon Avenue celebrates its grand opening today with a tasting event and sale.
For the longest time, Bobby McVicker says, he was doing olive oil all wrong. But after an eye-opening journey into the industry that started six years ago, he can’t go back. “The things we grew up on, most of the time, they’re not olive oil,” he said. “You taste the things we have and you feel betrayed.” That’s why McVicker opened Blue Moon, the latest retail addition to food-crazy Haddon Avenue. Within, visitors will find an array of what he promises are the freshest available olive oils and balsamic vinegars. McVicker proudly sources his product from a California direct importer, Veronica Foods. As the Southern and Northern hemispheres “counter-produce each other,” he said, Veronica adjusts its buying patterns to correspond with the …
Friday, August 31, 2012
The phrase by which we call the rare celestial event is related to the frequency of its occurrence rather than its color.
It might be a great chance to re-experience romance, faux-microbrew-label beer, and old doo-wop, but tonight's full moon is most noteworthy as a once-every-2.7-years kind of thing. The use of the phrase "blue moon" in the English language has been traced back as far as the 1500s, when the Oxford English dictionary cites it as an example of saying something patently absurd. The phrase didn't acquire its more contemporary meaning related to rarity until the 1800s. (This excellent article from Sky & Telescope magazine sorts most of this out, especially the interesting bit of ephemera surrounding its own contributions to confusing the issue from an astronomical perspective.) As far as astronomers are concerned, a blue moon simply refers to the…
Donna L Maxwell
11:42 pm on Saturday, March 2, 2013
We love Blue Moon & are so enjoying the variety of flavors. Gifts we bought for friends (oils, vinegars & dipping bowls) were big hits as well! We have made Blue Moon a frequent stop while shopping on the Avenue. more ›