After fearing the Cottage Food Bill was dead in the House, turns out it’s still gasping for air!  It has actually passed the House, and is in the Senate as bill # SB 81, and has apparently gone round and round a few times already for amendments.  The unfortunate part is that we have less [...]

Texas House of Representatives Bill #HB2084 (cottage foods, raw milk availability at a wider range of venues, Farmer’s Market support, etc) has been voted out of committee and is on its way to the House to (hopefully) be voted on.  Previously there were two bills supporting a Cottage Food industry in Texas — HB1139 and [...]

Well, the Cottage Food Bill is getting the runaround in the Texas Legislature again this year (flashback to 2009), and time is rapidly running out.  The process is rife with shenanigans and stalling tactics, and it looks like its getting parked in limbo again.  This is no good, and should not be allowed to happen [...]

I’d like to take a different direction for today’s post and talk about something important to us and many others that we know, and in fact, important to many who don’t even know it’s significance to them.  Yet. This year a determined group of folks and a few politicians are making a second attempt to [...]

It’s been a while since we’ve featured a business or person we respect and admire… shamefully too long.  We believe in the power of the pioneering spirit of creative folks.  We applaud anyone who can take a talent, skill, or product, make it marketable, and try to make a living from it — heck, we [...]

We at Curious Confections believe in the power of the pioneering spirit of creative individuals.  We admire anyone who can take a talent, skill, or product, make it marketable, and try to make a living from it.  Heck, we are those people.  As such we’ve got a good habit of trying to support and promote [...]

A while back, I came across a blog, it belonged to a girl who was in the final stages of a Baking and Pastry program at the Culinary Institute of America called Sweet Napa since it was in the Napa Valley in California that she was studying. Since I’ve been following her she graduated from [...]