MHLV 09: Marilyn Megenity | Mercury Cafe

Organic food is your birthright. – Marilyn Megenity

Marilyn Megenity has run Mercury Cafe for 40 years. She’s been committed to local, organic food long before it became fashionable. Mercury Cafe boasts around 90% local products on their menu and beyond food, provides a joyous gathering place for art and poetry, much as you’d expect for a cafe named for the Magician in a Tarot deck.

Marilyn combines her calming faith with a love for chaos when she comes to play at work, every day, “serving organic Colorado cuisine.”

– IN THIS EPISODE, YOU’LL LEARN –

• How she started her first cooking job at the tender age of 4
• What the dining public isn’t ready to go without
• How she tries to meet diner’s year-round expectations for fruit
• Why she thrives on the joyful chaos of a seasonal menu
• How and why she decides between local suppliers and organic suppliers
• Why good wool means tasty lamb
• What foods define Colorado cuisine from the rest of the country
• Why you can not only educate diners but be educated by them
• How faith conquers the fears that might keep an accountant up at night
• Why she loves cooking for people who know how to eat

– LINKS & RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE –

• Mercury Cafe
• Mercury Cafe’s supplier list
• Monroe Organic Farms & CSA
• Grant Farms
• Asher Brewing Co. (organic beer)
• Anna & Lance Hanson (Peak Spirits Farm Distillery / CapRock Spirits)
• 2015 Good Food Awards Winners (PDF)
• Still Cellars (certified organic barley whiskey)
• Julie Hansmire  (Colorado Mountain Natural Lamb) (no website)
• Tyler Faucette (Colorado Catch fishery) (no website)

– THANKS FOR LISTENING –

This episode MHLV 09: Marilyn Megenity | Mercury Cafe comes from Mile High Locavorist.