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Raw Revolutionaries - Pure Market Express This Chaska establishment offers prepared raw meals, desserts, appetizers and snack.
By Ivy Gracie
For the Ireys, success comes from making raw food accessible, easy and appealing to everyone. "We opened Pure Market Express to make healthy food convenient," Quentin says. "And if, one family at a time, we can help people have happier, healthier lives, that's a great thing."
Totally rawesome! - Pure Market Express, a prepared-food delivery service, can save your day.
By Amanda Altman
When pressed for time, we all occasionally reach for highly processed comfort foods. But now there's a healthy, delicious-and affordable-alternative.
Raw Foods Takout & Delivery Market
Twin Cities...natural
Both the curious and committed will be excited to hear that gourmet raw cuisine is now available for takeout from a Chaska storefront and its first-of-a-kind national online delivery service.
Pure Market Express prepares more than 100 different vegan entrees, desserts, snacks and pantry staples using fresh, primarily organic fruits, vegetables, nuts and seeds
Raw Meal Deal - Pure Market Express brings the raw-food movement to grocery store shelves.
Twin Cities Business
We all know it's a good thing to eat fruits and vegetables. We're just expanding people's horizons:' so fruits and vegetables can encompass "chocolate cheesecake:' says Rebecca Irey.
Irey and her husband, Quentin, launched Pure Market Express in August, selling "gourmet raw cuisine:' Their Chaska start-up includes a storefront, online sales around the country (puremarketexpress.com), and wholesaling, so far to Lakewinds Natural Food Coop in Chanhassen and Minnetonka.
Pure Market Express Review - Gourmet Raw Food Delivery Service.
Pure Market Express is not a raw food restaurant. The owners, Quentin and Rebecca Irey, knew that making a local raw food restaurant probably wasn't a very marketable idea here in the Twin Cities. So instead of the typical raw food restaurant business model, they decided to have a bigger vision, and create a raw food delivery service to the continental 48 states. Now, there are a few other raw food delivery services out there, but they haven't always been affordable for everyone. However, a quick look at the large variety and low prices for what you get at Pure Market Express will quickly expel the myth that deliverable raw food is expensive: www.puremarketexpress.com
The Raw Dish - Pure Market Express delivers raw meals right to your door.
by Brittany Proctor
Rebecca Irey's venture into raw foods is surprising considering she was raised on a cattle farm where meat was served at every meal. However, upon discovering the world of raw food diets, Rebecca traveled to New Hampshire to become a certified raw food chef. Rebecca's husband, Quentin, noticed a difference. "As she started to live this lifestyle things became so much better for her", says Quentin.
Raw Delivery: Only in NYC? Think Again.
Gena @ Choosing Raw.com
Yesterday, as I announced the lucky winner of Living Raw Food, I hinted at my upcoming review of a new raw foods delivery service. "A raw delivery service?" one reader commented. "Man. Only in New York."
Au contraire. You guys will be surprised to hear that raw foods delivery services are cropping up all over the country. They ship intricate, high-quality, organic, and all raw food right to your front door—no matter where you are. Most offer various packages (you sign up for a certain number of breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and snacks) or the option of ordering a la carte. And in my experience, most of these companies have been started with love and passion by someone whose life was touched by raw foods.
This is certainly true of Rebecca Irey, the co-founder and executive chef behind Pure Market Express, an incredible raw delivery service based in Minnesota. Rebecca grew up on the Standard American Diet: meat and potatoes, goulash and steak. A few meals at a raw restaurant in Minneapolis, though, were enough to pique her interest in the raw diet. If raw foods were as sumptuous and tasty as the foods she tried there, she figured, eating raw might not be so difficult after all. Rebecca was soon a regular at the restaurant, a raw foods convert, and she became a student of Alissa Cohen’s.
Raw Foods Market opens in Chaska - Pure Market Express is the real deal
Rebecca Adams
Minneapolis Cooking Examiner
Chaska stepped up to the raw foods plate. If you're going out to the Renaissance Festival in the next few weeks, this is just up the street. It is also on your way home from the Cities if coming up from the Mankato direction.
Founded by Quentin and Rebecca Irey, Pure Market Express has raw foods for take out or for mail order. You can order from their website as well. All food is handmade to order and its downtown storefront will also offer tastings from their menu items.
Finding a niche in sluggish economy
Rena Sarigianopoulos
NBC - Kare 11
Whenever the doors open for the first full day of business, any customer is a good customer. And for Pure Market Express in Chaska, owners Quentin and Rebecca Irey have had more good customers than even they expected.
Within just 10 minutes, the first order came in for Irey's "fresh" food experience. "None of the food that we prepare is heated over 115 degrees to maximize the vitamins and nutrients that are in the food," said Rebecca.
The couple is like many entrepreneurs, trying to find just the right food niche for success in a skittish economy. "We decided to go national right away versus building a strong local base and then go national," explained Quentin. "We needed everyone that had an interest coming to us right away because we don't have that time to ramp up. This needs to work sooner rather than later."
Pure Market Express business ships fresh, raw foods right to a customer's door, anywhere in the country. Now the question is, will it work? Professor Mark Spriggs from he University of St. Thomas said success depends on whether the concept will set the business apart from the crowd and of course, bring in customers.
According to Spriggs, "If the ideas are good, the business will take off. If the ideas are not so good, it won't." The Irey's think they've conquered that hurdle and are confident their venture will standout as one of kind in the Midwest.
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Eating is believing: Raw foods business opens Tuesday
by Mollee Francisco
Chaska Herald
Imagine a cheesecake made without sugar, without dairy products and without heat. Think it doesn’t exist? Think again.
One taste of Rebecca Irey’s chocolate cheesecake can turn doubters into believers. It will be the signature dessert in the new raw foods line being offered by Pure Market Express when it opens in downtown Chaska next week.
Raw foods are those made without dairy, without refined sugar or preservatives, without meat and without the use of heat, maximizing the nutritional benefits.
Pure Market Express is the brainchild of Rebecca and her husband Quentin. The Shorewood couple has already been in business together for 14 years running RI Transcription in Excelsior. Their second joint business venture is based on bringing their lifestyle to the masses.
Raw food has been a passion of Rebecca’s for years. “I love the way I feel eating this way,” she said.
Rebecca, who grew up on a cattle farm and still professes to hate vegetables, began eating raw foods as a form of dieting.
