Category Archives: Tips

Tidbits and Bites: News and Links for Friday, January 20


It's Friday. Tantalizing news and links to kick-start your weekend: The Hook reported on The Whiskey Jar, a soon-to-open Southern-inspired restaurant in C'ville by Will Richey of Revolutionary Soup, a Relay favorite! Congrats, Will! The 2290Living blog continues to impress with recommendations for great local artisans. Tim Vidra of E.A.T. shared Style Weekly's suggestions for eating in Richmond in 2012. A beautiful meditation on the Richmond Food Collaborative blog about the abundance of vegetables even in January. Do you have reservations for Restaurant Week in Charlottesville yet? How about for Slow Food RVA's screening of the TEDx Manhattan Changing the Way We Eat conference? Tips Read more …

What’s New at Relay: Week of January 15, 2012


A few updates from behind-the-scenes at Relay this week: Everyone: In addition to our list builder, we've added a shopping list wizard to help you keep track of what you want to buy and find it faster. I didn't think shopping Relay could get any easier!  Just beneath the shopping cart icon, click on the words Shopping List:  Add your shopping list items one-by-one and click shop. You'll be taken to each list item's page in turn. Choose the item what you want, add it to your cart, and click next. The shopping list wizard's format makes it easy to know what you've already put in your cart and what you need to buy next.  You can also remove items from the list that you actually don't Read more …

Tidbits and Bites: News and Links for Friday, January 13


Tantalizing news and links to kick-start your weekend: Slow Food RVA is bringing a day-long Viewing Party of TedX Manhattan's Change Our Food System event to Richmond. Join them on January 21. Charlottesville's Restaurant Week is coming up, so take a break from all your home cooking to try some of our best local restaurants. If you know young people looking for a new career and wishing to change children's health for the better, recommend Food Corps -- it's a great organization taking a new class of recruits. Since we're focusing on coffee this week, a few intriguing reads: coffee shops where people pay it forward and bring their dogs. Also, coffee art to visualize your addiction. A Read more …

10 Steps to: Make a Relay List


We hate to sound like Spotify advertisements, but seriously, we all love a list. From countdowns to all-time favorites, from 10 worst to most-emailed. There's even a certain fascination with other peoples' grocery lists. Lists just make life easier, too. According to psychologists, having fewer choices (say, 10 items you hand-selected) counterintuitively makes us happier than having infinite choices. Our programming wizard, Jordan, has worked hard to make convenient Relay lists a reality, so without further ado, a short tutorial: Choose "Lists" from the Ways to Shop menu on any page of Relay's site. On the right-hand side of the Lists page, choose Create a New List. Type a title Read more …

What’s New at Relay: Week of January 8, 2012


A few updates from behind-the-scenes at Relay this week: 1. Have you heard of Olli Salame yet? This dynamic Virginia Salumeria is getting fantastic press coverage nationwide -- from the Wall Street Journal to the New York Times to Garden and Gun Magazine. We've got lots of Olli in stock, so give it a try and once they've launched into superstardom you can say you ate it when... plus it's just plain delicious. To get started, try Olli salame as the perfect addition to your take-along snack (with fruit and cheese and chopped veggies), or in your pasta, or as a party hors d'oeuvre paired with a mild cheese. 2. Richmond: Richmond Relayers know that buying foods in bulk is a great way Read more …