Local coffee company Red Hot Roasters gets in the Derby spirit this year with a series of specialty muffins, available from April 26 to May 2.
There's Mint Julep, Chocolate-Walnut "Kentucky Pie" (you know, like that other certain pie that dare not speak its name), and my personal favorite, Bourbon Ball.
Sondra Powell, who operates Red Hot Roasters in two Louisville locations - one at 1402 Payne Street and another on Spalding University's campus - tries to use organic ingredients and local products as much as possible in her business. Her efforts have caught the attention of the Food Network, who have a write-up about the new line of limited-edition Kentucky Derby muffins and coffees in the new May 2010 issue of their magazine. Always nice to see Louisvillians getting national attention.
(And if you're reading this from Tierra Del Fuego or somewhere, they'll even ship you muffins in the mail! Contact them at sales@redhotroasters.com.)
I'm a multi-purpose media interloper working around the globe to make our world a weirder place to live in, but choose to call the dark and bloody ground of Jefferson County, Transylvania (some still call it Kentucky) my home base of operations.
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