Supplier Spotlight: Starrlight Bakery, La Bicyclette Bakery, and Creature Bread
May 5, 2026 By Liz Yap The Coop’s food often comes from like-minded vendors and organizations that value workers’ rights, have sustainable, ethical practices and produce healthy, delicious and fairly priced products. In this issue, we’re highlighting three of the Coop’s newest bakery suppliers that embody this ethos. Starrlight Bakery Emanuel Ruffler, the founder of…
A Checkout Game and a First Win
May 5, 2026 By Leila Darabi Earlier this month, a Coop member posted a missed connection on Reddit after finishing a shift: Using a throwaway acct here, but was on my shift at the coop on Sunday morning (9:30–12:30) and got relieved by a really cute guy named Matt at around noon,” the post read.…
Meet Theresa Gray, the Force Behind the Coop’s CBD Cabinet
April 14, 2026 By Susannah Jacob In 2018, a colleague at the Coop noticed that Receiving Coordinator Theresa Gray was favoring one shoulder. “You know how you can be in pain and not know it,” Gray remembers about the time. Gray loves her job because it keeps her moving all over the Coop. And yet,…
Cool Beans: Meet the Coop Member Behind Heydoh, the Rolex of Soy Sauces
April 14, 2026 By Liz Welch “How are you going to eat that?” This is a question I’ve heard multiple times while checking out at the Coop. Sometimes it’s referring to Fuyu persimmons, or fennel (salad hack: sliced thin with lemon, olive oil and toasted pine nuts). It happened again one afternoon last spring. I was…
Spring at Last! A Guide to Eating in a Season Most Fleeting
April 14, 2026 By Sam Mellins There’s a better way to know if spring is coming than observing Punxsutawney Phil’s shadow: watching the produce aisle at the Park Slope Food Coop. When local green garlic and winter spinach appear on the shelves, it’s a sure sign that the season is turning, according to produce buyer…
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