On this episode, we go to Richmond to visit Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods and see how their iconic White House Rolls and Rainbow cookies are made. Then we will head just south of Charlottesville to to Lovingston, Virginia with Trager Brothers Coffee to learn all about the coffee roasting process.
Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods produces high quality fresh food and baked goods from order to deliver in 24 hours.
Starting as a small grocery store in 1937, over the years Ukrop’s became a valued brand name in Richmond, Virginia. With the purchase of Dot’s Pastry Shop in 1976 and the opening of a central kitchen in 1989, fresh food manufacturing became an important part of the business.
Once the retail stores were sold in 2010, Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods was born—and began offering fresh kitchen and bakery products to retailers throughout Virginia and beyond.
Today Ukrop’s Homestyle Foods is a large customer-focused, fresh food manufacturer and continues to support the Richmond community.
Learn more:
www.ukropshomestylefoods.com
Trager Brothers Coffee is a family-owned organic small-batch coffee roaster operating in Charlottesville and Nelson County, Virginia. They sight roast all their coffee to order and it is wholesale distributed in the Mid-Atlantic region and online through website around the world.
In 1993, William and Joe Trager left Seattle with a life-long friend Doug to find the perfect place to start a coffee company. Like many people in history, they landed in Virginia with a dream and an espresso cart and got to work. Today, Trager Brothers is a full service coffee roasting company, shipping around the world with a retail location at UVA’s University Hospital called Higher Grounds.
Trager Brothers coffee maintains a high quality end product by sourcing only the best organic beans from around the world, slow sight roasting and the freshness of their roast-to-order business model.
Learn more:
www.tbcroasters.com