Breakfast in Istanbul *March 13th Date POSTPONED DUE TO PROBABILITY OF PRECIOUS RAIN!* NEW DATE: Sunday April 3, 2016 | 10 AM-12:30 PM PURCHASE
We have returned from our magical culinary field-trip to Turkey and think it's only fair to share a mezze or taste of the deliciousness we experienced. With suitcases full of spices, recipes and memories (many captured on film for your viewing pleasure) we wondered: What better way to share a taste of what we had than to offer our home-town Berkeley a delicious kahvalti or breakfast?
Join us at the Alembique table for a healthy, mouthwatering meal you can learn to make at home just as the Turks do. Our menu is in progress, but a typical Turkish breakfast can comprise cheese (beyaz peynir, kaşar etc.), butter, olives, eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, jam, honey, home-made fruit preserves and kaymak. Sucuk (spicy Turkish sausage, often eaten with eggs), pastırma, börek, simit, poğaça and soups may form part of a morning meal in Turkey. Menemen, a breakfast specialty, is prepared with tomatoes, green peppers, onion, olive oil, eggs and Turkish tea. Turkish coffee is often drunk in the afternoon, but we may bend the rules a little for you.
♥Cost:$26/person if booked by Mon March 21, $30 thereafter, plus10% off any purchase made on day of workshop.
Caspian Tea Party: Norouz 1395 Edition Saturday March 19 | 2:30-5 PM [SEVEN SPACES LEFT] PURCHASE Join us to celebrate Norouz, the Persian new year, and the dawn of spring. Enjoy the ancient spring ritual of the Persian Haft-sin table and welcome the season of rebirth and vitality as our ancestors have done for millennia.
Join Hanif Sadr, Caspian chef extraordinaire and founder of Komaaj, a Persian food and culture start-up, as he celebrates spring with rare teas grown in and around his grandfather's 19th century farmhouse, nestled deep in the lush mountains of Gilan, Iran.
Learn about the region's last remaining tea farms, run mostly by women, and ways to brew tea in the classical Persian way. Explore the taste, color, aroma and benefits of each tea as you bite into home-made Gilani confectionery crowned with scrumscious preserves, local honey and other delights.
Spring is where the samovar simmers to the music and poetry of Rumi, where love, well-being, renewal and YOU are the special guests...only at Alembique.
♥Instructor: Hanif Sadr | Cost:$25/person if booked by Mon March 14, $30 thereafter, plus 10% off any purchase made on day of workshop.
SPECIAL SALES ♥WED & FRI WEEKLY SALE | 10% OFF Stock up on gifts and ingredients every Wednesday & Friday in March and April with 10% off herbs, spices and most everything else. Surprise yourself with something fresh and natural every week with fabulous new ingredients, handcrafted healing products, useful supplies, edifying workshops and fresh encounters with nature's magic. Just mention this offer to receive the discounts.
Rejuvenating Eye/Face Serummade with cold pressed berry seed oils like Blackberry and Kiwi, Fennel and German Chamomile
Organic skin nourishing massage oils made with almond, sunflower, coconut, kukui and other rare oils infused with calendula, frankincense, lavender, rose, jasmine, rosewood and other all-natural essences
Kashan Rose Salve, perfect for nourishing, healing and making brilliant winter lips you will otherwise wear out quickly while romancing.
Healing lip perfume rollers made with organic medicated and essential oils.
Bath and foot soak salts that soothe sore muscles and joints, as they nourish your body with trace minerals, made with volcanic, dead sea and ancient salts, steam distilled essential oils and organic chamomile infused coconut and sunflower oils.
Face serums and toners like Queen of Berkeley that make your skin rosy and happy.
Organic, edible hydrosols(the secret ingredient for that special tissane or cocktail as well as healthy, hydratred skin!) including Lebanese and Persian rose, lemon verbena, mint, mullein, jasmine, rosemary, helichrysum and violet.
Hand-crafted Lovers' Teas with saffron, chrysanthemum, borage flowers, hibiscus, cornflower and more healing floral beauties.
Castile handmade soaps that cleanse gently as they soften and nourish your thirsty skin, a few from Istanbul,while they last.
Hand-poured beeswax candles, made with coconut oil and organic hemp wick, for air-purifying illumination.
♥CUSTOM PERSONALIZED GIFTS Pre-order your unique, all-natural and heavenly holiday gifts. Email us in advance with your holiday gift needs and we will get it going...and the sooner you let us know the better!
♥ALEMBIQUE GIFT CERTIFICATES It's now even easier to offer the wonderful all-natural healing experience of Alembique Apothecary to some one you care about. Email us with your full name, the gift amount, full name name of recipient, recipient's address, any message and we will mail or email a paper or pdf gift certificate to the lucky recipient of your choice. The certificate can be used for products and workshops and includes a 10% discount offer on purchases of herbs, teas and spices. They are valid for six months but can be extended for a additional two months of you request it via email before its expiration.
Alembique New Hours Mon: By appointment
Tues: 11 AM - 5 PM
Wed: 11 AM - 6:30 PM
Thur: 11 AM - 7 PM
Fri: 11 AM - 7 PM
Sat: 11 AM - 7 PM
Sun: 11 AM - 5 PM
Call us at 510.255.0901 to order items in advance that we can prepare for you to pick up later.
ALEMBIQUE APOTHECARY APPRENTICE PROGRAM
You are a talented maker and DIYer of natural, healing products. Your salve, cream, lotion, toothpaste, deodorant, tincture or infusion is made with love and intelligence, so it rocks like no other. You love bees...perhaps you even keep them. You can't get enough of learning about plants, care passionately about the planet, and never tire of helping your community explore natural healing and handcrafted products instead of petrochemical cocktails from petrochemical corporations.
You are exceptionally dependable, patient, flexible, fun and compassionate. You may be a budding or experienced herbalist or simply a practiced maker who thrives in a small team environment and expects generous feedback. Your are organized and tidy, can visualize serving as crew on a small boat, and often manage your and others' choppy seas with a wicked sense of humor.
You have no boat, but you have a few hours each week that deserve not to be killed but to be filled instead with a piece of your dream.
And your dream? To become a contributing member of a true community apothecary that seems to have sailed into Berkeley from another century. To learn, to make, to share, and to help teach and to heal. To do what you have always wanted to do, now that you have a day job!
If we took the words right out of your mouth, let's talk!
Apprentice for a minimum of 20 hours in one month and show us the right stuff, and we will discuss ways you can make a little cash while becoming part of the Alembique Apothecary experience. For details, emailus a one-page statement explaining why you are the right candidate and a one-page resume. If qualified, we will contact you to set up a friendly chat to see if together we can start building another piece of this dream of ours.
Please Note: Purchase tickets early to save and to not miss out as space is limited.
Workshop participants receive 10% off of any purchase on workshop day.
Youth under 16 years-old receive 20% off workshop fees.
For a full refund minus $10 cancellation fee, cancellation requests must be emailed 72 hours in advance of workshop date. Come in & DiscoverWhat's New & Exclusive at the Apothecary
Rare Rose & Jasmine Oils Wildcrafted and traditionally steam-distilled, from small village farms in Iran
New Organic Aromatic Hydrosols (the embodiment of the maxim "only wear on your skin, what you can drink!") like healing distillates of chamomile, comfrey, dandelion, sage, jasmine, peppermint, mullein and helichrysum.
New Organic Tinctures like eleuthero, schizandra and yarrow and California poppy.
New Organic Medicated Oils like Heal-All, Arnica, St. John's Wort, Witchhazel, Comfrey Leaf, Olive Leaf, Turmeric and Rosemary.
New Healing Handcrafted Products like St. Rose Salve, Kashan Rose Balm, Luscious Face Cream, Sun Salve and Royal Primrose cream, ABC (Aloe, Bay and Clary Sage) Facial Toner/Aftershave.
World's best Oral Health Toothpaste with White Oak, Propolis and Spirulina
World's Best Ingredients like Persian saffron, rose oil, organic red and green rooibos, honeybush, helichrysum, reishi, and freshly harvested Wakame and Kobu.
Freshly Picked-to-order Organic Herbs and Roots from our local organic farms like calendula, English thyme, Greek Mountain Tea, lavender, sage and milk thistle.
New Popular Tea blends like "Lover's Tea," "Happy Liver, Happy Skin", "Breathe," "Becalm" and "Sleeping Angel" blends.
Alembique Honey, possibly the bay area's most fragrantly delectable honey, a precious gift from our rooftop bees to you.
