(Almost) Local Celebrity
I was little surprised to see something pretty close to local reference as I leafed through the June/July issue of Saveur over lunch yesterday - a blurb about the Medalta Potteries company from Medicine Hat, Alberta. I guess that one of the writers has a few fond childhood memories of pickled delights housed in Medalta ceramic crocks. I can't remember reading anything in Saveur about Alberta before, so I think that this little write-up about Medalta is kind of neat.
A few years ago, Gourmet mentioned Calgary's Rocky's Burgers in an issue. Rocky's Burgers is notable because the retaurant is housed in an old Calgary Transit bus. I kid you not.
Unfortunately, my childhood memory of Medalta consists of my father's various efforts to make sauerkraut. Take a 5-gallon Medalta crock, fill it with cabbage, and let it sit down in the basement (15 feet from Chris' door) for the better part of the summer. Stir occasionally. Bleh. Candy actually worked for Medalta for a while a few summers ago, so we got great rates on stetson-shaped ashtrays and one-off crockery. Yay!
Posted by: Chris | June 17, 2004 at 04:03 AM
The article in Saveur was a great thing for us. It helped with our exposure and generated crock sales literally all over the US. The only problem was they neglected to include our web site address. http://www.medalta.org/ (sigh!!!) But . . . every little bit helps I suppose.
If you are interested in a little Windows Shopping (parden the pun) have a look at our soon to be ecommerce giftshop
http://www.medalta.org/giftshop/
it should be live by the middle of July or so
Posted by: Larry | July 11, 2004 at 02:16 AM