The Food Peddler

09/03/2026

🔥 THE HEARTH IS LIT — FIRST DROP 🔥

Our Mexican Chocolate Blend is officially ready.

Rich cocoa, warming cinnamon and spice, with just enough heat underneath to give it that deep Mexican-chocolate character.

We’ve been playing with this blend in the kitchen — drinking it, baking with it, and finding different ways to bring those warm chocolate-and-spice notes into what we make.

And now the first small batch is ready to go.

Only 10 bags available for this first drop.

📍 NY area
👇 Comment INTERESTED and I’ll reach out with the details.

The Food Peddler’s Hearth Collection
Small batches. Made by hand. Built from the kitchen outward.

09/03/2026

🔥 THE HEARTH IS LIT — FIRST DROP 🔥

Our Mexican Chocolate Blend is officially ready.

Rich cocoa, warming cinnamon and spice, with just enough heat underneath to give it that deep Mexican-chocolate character.

We’ve been playing with this blend in the kitchen — drinking it, baking with it, and finding different ways to bring those warm chocolate-and-spice notes into what we make.

And now the first small batch is ready to go.

Only 10 bags available for this first drop.

📍 NY area
👇 Comment INTERESTED and I’ll reach out with the details.

The Food Peddler’s Hearth Collection
Small batches. Made by hand. Built from the kitchen outward.

08/30/2026

The Food Peddler — The Hearth Is Relit 🔥

As summer begins to wind down, I’ve been looking back at what has come out of The Food Peddler’s kitchen this year.

From Valentine’s dinners and cooking experiences, to summer gatherings, family BBQs, and our recent Like Water for Chocolate book-club dinner — there have been a lot of meals, a lot of experimenting, and a lot of people gathered around the table.

And somewhere along the way, something else started calling me back.

The Hearth.

The Food Peddler’s Hearth Collection is being relit for the fall. 🔥

Small-batch seasonal blends, salts, warming flavors, and a few old favorites are coming back to the table — beginning with:

🍎 Apple Blend
🎃 Pumpkin Blend
🍁 Maple Blend
🔥 Hearth Salt

I’ll be opening a limited fall preorder as we head into September.

This is a return to something I’ve always loved about The Food Peddler: good food, a little fire, a little experimentation, and something worth sharing around the table.

The Hearth is lit again.

More this week. 🔥

— Chef Paul
The Food Peddler

10/12/2025

Self-Study Sunday — Discernment**

The early verses of the *Tarka* remind us that understanding begins with **discernment.**
True diagnosis doesn’t live in a single sense or the mind alone—it grows from the whole body of awareness: **seeing, touching, questioning, and reflecting.**

The *Tarka* cautions against the *commercially spiritual*: when mysticism is sold instead of studied, it drifts from healing into harm.
Even masters who perceive through sound or intuition earn that clarity only through years of trust and disciplined practice.

For both patient and practitioner, the message is the same:
✨ **Ayurveda is more than the self. Used without discernment, it can wound instead of heal.**

10/10/2025

🪷 Food For Thought Friday
“Learn it till you earn it.”
There’s a quiet strength in study — in showing up, again & again, until knowledge becomes rhythm and rhythm becomes mastery.
Practice doesn’t just make permanent; it makes peace.

01/05/2025

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