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Patina green cauliflower sandwich5/28/2023 The thick bread glistens, studded by summer vegetables. Inside, it’s cool, and focaccia chills at the register. Nine years later, and the sandwiches are worth a blistering sunburn. On a shockingly hot afternoon, the heatwaves are turning the air into a cake, and Patina Green’s patio is packed in the beating sun. “All the stores I remember had shitty chicken salad sandwich and a quiche.”Ĭlose to a decade later (they just hit their ninth anniversary), their second business has become a leading reason to high-tail it to McKinney. It was all striking - except for the food. On a trip to France, they fell in love with the open air markets and the arresting, painterly fresh food that wasn’t flanked by Pizza Huts. They did what anyone would do when presented with an icy wave of change: anything to keep moving. It was a devastating blow to their family. Kaci Lyford’s father was diagnosed, suddenly - he didn’t smoke and he ran miles upon miles - with stage 4 lung cancer. A few things happened next that sent their reality into a corkscrew: In 2008, a little liquid spilled on the economy and the United States shorted out. He’d been a chef since pre-Y2K, a graduate of ye olde culinary school, and, somehow, they ended up with an interior painting business. Their first was roving the state and country with buckets of paint. Sandwiches are Kaci and Robert Lyford’s second business.
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