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Clover dedicates a portion of our restaurants to CSA (farm box) pickups from 4 local farms. CSA stands for community-supported agriculture, and it’s the best economic model to support small farmers and get the most delicious produce all summer and fall. Here’s how it works. You pay up front during the spring (aka now), and in exchange for your initial investment, you get a box of produce weekly during the summer. Each farm drops off…

Many of you have been asking when Pushpir will be back, and now it is! Cilantro mint chutney, squeaky paneer cheese (a fresh cheese similar to halloumi), pickled red cabbage, chickpeas, jalapeños, tamarind sauce, and yogurt sauce. This year it has a Bowl version — all the same joy of the sandwich plus warm turmeric rice, lentil date curry salad, and Parsnip Pakoras (shredded veggie fritters) made with spring-dug parsnips and other root veggies! They’re kind of chewy, deeply spiced, and intensely satisfying.

Is your New Year’s Resolution to eat more veggies? Of course it is! And the best way to do that is to get comfortable cooking more in your home kitchen : ) We just launched 3 hands-on, in-person cooking classes for January! Cozy Soups with Jasper, Healthy Baking with Kev, and a Kid’s Only Pita Pizza Decorating class. If you’ve never taken a class with us, we’ve been having fun with them since the food truck days. We tap our own chefs to teach and inspire – and everyone gets to take food home. 

In honor of Halloween, Kevin (Director of Hospitality) and the kitchen team have been baking up a spooky surprise: Halloween cookies made with black cocoa powder and a sugary eye that will blink ominously at you. We’ll have Halloween cookies all week, and if you come in costume tomorrow (10/31) you’ll get a mini one for free! We’ll be taking extra care with one element of the cookies – the eyes. The kitchen team discovered that the eyes melt if you put them in the batter before cooking, so we’ll be carefully transplanting an eye onto each cookie right after they exit the oven. 

Honestly, Lucia and I are still getting used to writing words like “Chicken” and “Pork” in our emails, but Clover’s partnership with Tender—our favorite local neighborhood plant-protein magicians—means that the Kitchen team is cooking up all sorts of amazing new sandwiches for our menu. This week, we’d like to introduce you to the new BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich. It starts with Clover’s BBQ sauce, the stuff of legend: conceived on a research trip to Texas…

Emily just sent me a picture of this giant lettuce we just got from Verrill Farm. We’re going to be putting it in Monday’s Salad Meal Box along with eggplant, carrot-feta spread, Lebanese white bean salad, and a bunch of other yummy things. If you’re subscribed, you’re probably already in for this delivery; if you’d like to try it a-la-carte click here. Because these greens are grown in real soil, you’ll need to give them a good rinse using a…

This week has been a flurry of preparations as we kick off the 2024 food truck season. We did an event at Tufts over the weekend, in a few days we’ll be selling breakfast and lunch at a conference at the Media Lab at MIT, and this weekend we’ll be pulling up to a private party with sandwiches and appetizers.

I’m writing to share some news: we’ve decided to permanently close CloverROW, our outpost in the Assembly Row neighborhood of Somerville. The closure of this restaurant is part of the whole company’s focus on reaching financial sustainability and positioning us for future growth. These decisions are really hard, but they’re necessary steps for us to simplify Clover. And, happily, all the amazing staff at CloverROW, including the manager Joe, will be able to move into other Clover restaurants. The math is straightforward…

Some of you have been asking for a sides-only box – and it’s true, sides are the best part, aren’t they? We’re making a limited number of boxes with mashed potatoes, gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and King Brussels’ Casserole. Each Sides Box serves 6-8 people and can be delivered to your door for 11/21 or 11/22.