2011 Holiday Raffle: Rao's Coffee

Do you like coffee? Do you like mushrooms? Well, have I got a giveaway for you!

Rao's Coffee Roasting Company, located in Hadley, MA, supplies direct-trade coffee beans to more than 100 Boston area restaurants, including Craigie on Main and Hamersley's Bistro. Rao's recently partnered with Ming Tsai, chef of Blue Ginger and host of public television's Simply Ming, to create a one-of-a-kind coffee blend that includes health-promoting maitake mushrooms. And you do remember the other name for maitake mushrooms, don't you? DON'T YOU??? It's my beloved hen-of-the-woods! Pay attention, people!

Mushrooms in coffee? Are you intrigued? I know I am. But since I'm not a coffee-drinker, you guys get to be my guinea pigs. Rao's is donating one 16 oz. bag of Ming Tsai's Maitake Coffee for Health (caf or decaf) to one lucky winner. Don't think I'm being 100% altruistic here. I want you guys to stop falling asleep during my mushroom posts. To be considered, leave a comment below about coffee or mushrooms. Comments will close at 10 p.m. EST on Saturday 12/17.

If you prefer your coffee untainted with mushrooms, know that Rao's also sells French Roast, Ethiopian Yirgacheffe, Guatemalan (organically grown), and a whole bunch of other coffees perfect for gift-giving. You can order them through their site or, if you're lucky, you might find some at Russo's (oddly, under the mushroom bins).

Comments

[Kate]

Although I have absolutely no desire to go foraging for mushrooms myself, I never fall asleep during your mushroom posts! As for coffee, I don't actually own a coffeemaker, but I do make a mean cup of cold-brewed and I'd love to try Rao's.

[snippyscissors]

i'm making mushroom lasagna for a party on sunday and i love coffee, although we are devotees of terroir in acton, ma. that's some good coffee. really (in italics) good coffee.

[Heidi S]

Love the mushroom posts and love coffee too. I was the blog reader that told my lucky neighbor to email you about her gorgeous mushrooms. So glad it worked out and I sent her the link to your followup post. Thanks for the chance to win the coffee!

[NancyJ]

I have actually LOOKED at mushrooms growing around me since I started reading your mushrooms stories (I will never pick and attempt to eat one though).
MUSHROOM COFFEE! That's Crazy! I'd love to win it so I can try it and we love Ming Tsai in our house to boot!

[millie]

I'm not sure I want mushroom coffee but the semester is over and I've got time to enter random raffles. It would make a good conversation starter at a dinner party. And is more appealing than coffee beans pooped out by civets.

[Red]

I knew you couldn't eat some mushrooms, but I didn't know you were so handicapped with coffee. What's wrong with you?

[Amy Ayers]

I'm a caffeine addict....yes I admit it. And the shrooms are growing on me. Hated them all my life, but in the past year my husband has gotten me to eat some. Mushroom risotto....DELICIOUS! In coffee....intriguing.

[Cindy]

I love coffee and I love mushrooms and would love to try this coffee!

[Gail]

Tammy, Your posts about mushroom foraging have simultaneously inspired and terrified me. (But in an entertaining, haunted house kind of way.) And I thank you for that.

So coffee and mushroomy-ness, together in a piping hot cup of deliciousness?? (Smacks forehead.) Why didn't I ever think of that?

[Arleen]

I wonder if my husband would notice mushrooms in his coffee? Anything approved by Ming Tsai is OK by me!

[Kate]

Maitake coffee? I'm intrigued.

[Jacquelyn]

I would love to try mushroom coffee! And sneak it into Husband's mug without telling him he's drinking MUSHROOMS. (maniacal laugh)

[Don Chase]

Being from the NW - coffee is king here. Seen all kind of blends but nothing with mushrooms. Chanterelles can be found now in the woods here. Oh they are so good. Hope I win.

[Tammy]

And the winner, as chosen by Random.org, is...#13 Don Chase. I'll be in touch soon.

Thanks, everybody!