16 January, 2018: Go soups! If you click on this post you can see my little souper hero animation. You may have noticed we’re making lots of soups this winter. And while we believe all our food helps the environment, there’s something extra special about soup. We want everybody to eat more soup. Read on if you’re interested in learning… Read More
13 January, 2018: Were you able to try a medlar this weekend? If not, we will hopefully have them at most locations Monday and Tuesday, but we can’t guarantee them much longer. Medlar mania is hitting Boston hard, as we realized when we got a very special visitor to CloverDTX on Friday. Fabricio, who leads up communications at CloverDTX, sent… Read More
13 January, 2018: Hey, Longwood. Is there any area in Boston that has fewer places to get a drink? Well, we’re about to change that. First some backstory. When we opened CloverLMA, we noticed there was NOWHERE to get a beer. Ok, there was one place. The great Punter’s Point near Northeastern — and it just closed this winter! I will miss… Read More
6 November, 2008: As we’re becoming more comfortable with the truck operations, we’ve decided to start preparing the soups on the truck, in the morning. It’s pretty crazy. I think it’s safe to assume nobody has done something like this in the past. I don’t know whether anybody appreciates how hard it is to find fresh soup at any restaurant.… Read More
12 January, 2018: Who would have thought? We launched the Medlar Sandwich yesterday. And it was a blockbuster. We sold 500 medlar sandwiches, and sampled around 500 more medlars and jam to folks who were curious. This is the type of ingredient you won’t find in most restaurants, definitely not fast food ones like ours. It’s hard to find (it… Read More
12 January, 2018: A bunch of us were having a meeting about the Public Release of the Clover App, coming in mid-February. And we’re all thinking about ways to make the app fun to use. Like, really fun. We want to incorporate some elements of surprise, some elements of playfulness. Jane said, “You know you can text a pizza emoji… Read More
23 December, 2017: You think you know everything about fruits, and then you meet a medlar. It comes into season in the winter. And it needs to “blet” (or rot, or ferment, however you want to call it) a little bit before it is yummy. For this reason, medlars have been used as metaphors (kinda inappropriate by today’s standards) by many… Read More
21 December, 2017: This is Kenny. Jenny and I invited him over to CloverHUB to taste this year’s Carrot Sandwich before it formally launches today. He’s a regular customer at CloverKND, and a grad student in chemistry at MIT. We got a very poetic letter from him through Facebook Messenger a while back asking us to bring back the Carrot Sandwich. Today… Read More
13 November, 2008: We’re getting better at this, but everyday there are a few reminders that we have a ways to go. This morning it was aluminum foil. We had planned to get to MIT by 9am, and we were running early. Then Rolando remembered that we were nearly out of foil. Around we turned, back to BMS Paper. $20.98… Read More
14 December, 2017: You might remember our first take at hummus bowls was a disaster. If you were a Kendall customer who tried hummus bowls back in August, sorry! Packaging, operations, communications were all a mess. We regrouped, and tested them again at CloverFIN, and it was a huge success (btw, if you’re craving those hummus bowls, they’ll likely appear… Read More
14 December, 2017: We had a really incredible response to the Winter Moon Roots CSA. We had hoped we would sell 100 shares for Michael and his farm; final numbers are coming in at 300. Thanks to everyone who signed up – you’re all helping support organic farming right here in Massachusetts. The first pickup is Monday, December 18, from… Read More
13 December, 2017: The Impossible meatballs have been selling like crazy. Our contractor Justin Kelly suggested we turn our attention to breakfast, asking when we were going to make a sausage egg and cheese. This is the second Impossible item we’ve been working on. That picture above was from a food planning meeting a few weeks back. We were having… Read More
6 December, 2017: A bunch of you have been asking for this, so here it is! We’re making some of our favorite soups, salads, and appetizers (like that butternut squash soup, or our yummy Hungarian cheese spread) and packing them up in larger quantities for you to bring to your holiday table this year. We’ll have 3 pickup dates, during… Read More
22 June, 2010: Systems are improving back at the kitchen. These pickled onions and cabbage are inside “third pan” Cambros (clear kitchen-grade containers). We used to make pickled veg inside huge 22-quart Cambros. Every evening when we restocked for the next day, some of the pickled veg went into 8-quart Cambros. Then, when we set up for lunch on the… Read More
6 December, 2017: That’s a Spicy Coconut Lentil soup being built at Clover Burlington the other week. We’re rolling out a few changes to the menu tomorrow. We’re hoping they make you love Clover more! If you stop by, help cheer on the crew. They’re adjusting to a lot of changes (where to put things, what time to prep things.)… Read More