Michigan Brothers Turn Health Issue into Business Success
By Robin Mather For Marshall Rader, a 2009 diagnosis of celiac disease meant more than the usual headaches as he tried to eat gluten-free while on the road. “I could be going anywhere from two days to...
View ArticleNorthern Wind Celebrates 30 Years with Brand Refresh
By Lorrie Baumann Northern Wind, which packages and distributes scallops from the Port of New Bedford, Massachusetts to the American market, is launching a complete refresh of its retail brands. Five...
View ArticleMaryland Senate Sends Home Baking Bill to Governor’s Desk
The Maryland Senate voted unanimously today to pass HB 1106, which would expand where home bakers can legally sell their homemade treats. Currently, the state has some of the strictest limits in the...
View ArticleSpecialty Food Association to Announce 2018 sofi Award Winners
The Specialty Food Association has announced that the 2018 class of sofi Award winners will be named on Wednesday, April 11. The complete list of winners will be available here on GourmetNews.com on...
View ArticleDoorganics Launches Mobile App, Delivers Organic Groceries to Customers...
Doorganics, Michigan’s only organic grocery delivery company, is making it easier to receive the freshest food possible from local and organic farms with the launch of a mobile app. The app will...
View ArticleGMA to Honor Mondelēz International’s Irene Rosenfeld and Kroger’s Fred...
The Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) will award its prestigious Hall of Achievement Award to Irene Rosenfeld and Fred Morganthall. Rosenfeld is the retired Chairman and Chief Executive Officer...
View ArticleAnd the sofi Award Goes to…
By Lorrie Baumann The two best cheeses entered into this year’s sofi Awards competition were made by Rogue Creamery and Vermont Creamery. Rogue Creamery won a gold sofi Award for Organic Rogue River...
View ArticleOrganic Trade Association Wheels in Artillery for Court Battle on Animal...
The Organic Trade Association this week ratcheted up its court battle against the U.S. Department of Agriculture over the agency’s failure to put into effect new organic livestock standards, with two...
View ArticleDallas Gourmet Gold Specialty Food Awards Call for Entries
Dallas Market Center is calling for entries for the nineth annual Dallas Gourmet Gold Specialty Food Awards to be held at Dallas Market Center during the Total Housewares and Gourmet Market, June...
View ArticleSomething New Under the Greek Sun
By Lorrie Baumann It’s not often that a story about a food product for the American market begins with an ancient Greek philosopher, but this one does. That’s because a Greek philosopher, Theophrastus,...
View ArticleRed Duck Foods in Quest for Condiment Domination
By Lorrie Baumann Red Duck Foods started with the idea that discriminating eaters who were putting great thought into their foods, sourcing them carefully, cooking them with all the skill they could...
View ArticleChocolate Consumers Deepen Their Understanding of the Product They Love
By Robin Mather Once upon a time, the customer who had a taste for a little chocolate dropped into the nearest drug or grocery store and picked up a bar of milk chocolate. Those days have vanished,...
View ArticleDavis Chocolate Completes Branding for Royal Indulgence Truffles
Davis Chocolate has recently completed branding of its artisanal, organic Royal Indulgence Truffles. “The new, clear cylinders with gold caps are an elegant choice for packaging our truffles,” said...
View ArticleBobo’s Poised to Break out from Boulder
By Lorrie Baumann Fueled by an $8 million round of capital in 2017 and this year’s launch of a new product line at Natural Products Expo West, Bobo’s is poised to break into the national mainstream...
View ArticlePurveying the Milk of Human Kindness in an Urban Food Desert
By Lorrie Baumann The Salvation Army has opened a 27,000-square foot neighborhood grocery store in a Baltimore neighborhood that had been a food desert. The new store, opened on March 7, has the...
View ArticleCreative Chill from Coolhaus
By Lorrie Baumann Premium ice cream brand Coolhaus is getting set for summer with the launch of seven new ice cream flavors and three new ice cream sandwich varieties this year at Natural Products Expo...
View ArticleSweet New Look for Local Hive Honey
By Lorrie Baumann Sometimes, it’s just true that the more things change, the more they stay the same. Rice’s Honey is proving that old saying even as the company departs from its long-standing brands...
View ArticleDelivering a World of Gastronomic Traditions to the American Market
By Lorrie Baumann Specialty food producers are reaching back into ancient culinary tradition to elevate the ingredients of home cooking into haute cuisine. For example, the pimento cheese that’s a food...
View ArticleSlow Food Nations is Coming Up
Slow Food Nations will be held in Denver, Colorado, from July 13-15, 2018. The full schedule, including a leaders summit, is now available at www.slowfoodnations.org. The event is free and open to the...
View ArticleFourth Annual SF Cheese Fest Brings Local Cheesemakers and Enthusiasts...
California Artisan Cheese Guild (CACG), the state’s only nonprofit dedicated to sustaining California’s artisan cheesemaking community, announces the Fourth Annual SF Cheese Fest taking place September...
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