(MARINA, Calif.) -- This holiday season, The Ginger People, America’s #1 selling ginger brand, lends a helping hand to create easy meals with an on-pack recipe book for their award-winning range of Ginger Sauces. Slated to hit natural and gourmet stores nationwide this month, this handy little tome is filled with signature recipes co-created with renowned chefs. Read more...
Why would someone who’s allergic to chocolate start a chocolate company? For Mike Ashamalla, owner of Tifa Chocolate & Gelato in Agoura Hills, it’s because chocolate seems more like a delicacy than a sweet to be consumed mindlessly.
“If I eat too much, I break out in hives. I tolerate it in small amounts,” Ashamalla said of his chocolate allergy. Due to his ailment, Ashamalla said that he savors the exotic chocolates sold at Tifa as they should be.
The chocolate shop and wholesaler on Kanan Road specializes in rare chocolates from countries around the world, including Russia, Madagascar and Belgium. Recently, Tifa began selling drinking chocolate, a popular treat in Europe with origins in the ancient Mayan and Aztec civilizations. Rather than standard chocolate in which cocoa beans are ground into a powder, drinking chocolate involves baking chocolate until it melts. At Tifa, up to 20 spices may be added during the process. Read more...
(SAN FRANCISCO) -- McEvoy Ranch, the pioneering and leading U.S. producer of certified organic extra virgin olive oil, has unveiled its redesigned Ferry Building shop. One of the first tenants to lease space in San Francisco’s bustling Ferry Building Marketplace five years ago, the retail shop has been reconfigured to bring more of the signature elements of the 550-acre ranch to Ferry Building shoppers. Read more...
(Soquel, CA) - Shaman Chocolates is pleased to announce it has expanded its collection of gourmet, organic chocolate bars to include two new flavors. All profits from the sale of the certified organic and Fair Trade Shaman Chocolates help support the Huichol Indians, a tribe living in central western Mexico in the Sierra Madre Mountains, who are said to be the last Indigenous Tribe in North America to have maintained their pre-Columbian traditions. Read more...
North Carolina — Five years ago, Margot Walser took her annual chutney canning operation to Raleigh to teach her daughter and two friends how to make the 50-year-old family recipe.
The laborious, two-day process of purchasing and cutting up ingredients, washing jars, cooking and bottling the seven-fruit chutney was becoming too much for the 70-something Walser to continue. So daughter Carolyn W. Johnson was the last hope to keep the family tradition alive. Read more...
Randolph, MA - Stephanie Browne says she became seriously interested in wine when she was out for dinner with friends and wanted to know more about the wine list she was reading. Her husband, Basil, says he awakened her interest in wine on their first date, in New York City, by introducing her to a Pouilly-Fuissé.
However it started, the Brownes have continued their quest to find tasty, memorable wines together. And now, they're sharing that passion with others.
The Brownes, who have been married for 20 years, opened the Bon Vivant Wine Company in Randolph at the end of April, after hatching the idea five years ago and earnestly planning for the past three. Read more...
(AUSTIN, Texas) — If you're paying attention, you'll notice that during November and December, many American households produce more garbage than at other times of the year.
We're very generous, indulging our friends and families with thoughtful, well-intentioned gifts during the holidays, but we also pass on the disposal burden of all the packaging material that comes with them! We unintentionally shower our loved ones with an excess of plastic, metal, and cardboard packaging that at best, is recyclable. Read more...
York, PA — Paul and Paula Stoeckle, owners of York-based Mike's Nut Shop, used the relatively little known holiday of National Nut Day to officially launch the company's new logo and packaging.
It was unveiled at the Rutter's Farm Store along Route 24 in York Township on Wednesday.
"We're coming out of our shell with our new look," Paul Stoeckle said.
Compared to the old paper bag-like package, the new resealable plastic bag is a much-needed improvement said Marc Laucks, the owner of Marc Laucks and Co., designers of the new logo and packaging. Read more...
To those out there who may be intimidated to join the legion of tea-drinkers: Banish thoughts that tea is only for a certain (read: snobby) crowd. And keep that pinkie finger relaxed.
Pinkie-raising, notes tea etiquette expert Sue Springer, who teaches classes and workshops on the dos and don'ts of tea drinking, is overly formal and a bit stuffy.
Tea appeals to a broad demographic, adds Tricia Jay-James, owner of Everything Tea in Snohomish, where customers range from high-school students and bikers to young professionals and grandmothers. Read more...
Fairfield, CT — "The English contribution to world cuisine—the chip," quipped Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda.
For the average outsider, the term "British gourmet" seems a tad oxymoronic. We've never had an accurate depiction of their cuisine, save for the usual Earl Grey and biscuits.
That all changed for me when my new commute took me past UK Gourmet, which straddles the Bethel/Newtown border. This quaint food store shares its home with a hair salon and liquor store and the red and white-striped awnings that adorn the plaza seem out of place, except when they reach UK Gourmet, with its twin British flags. Read more...
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