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Posts tagged “Dairy & Cheese”

Store Review: Fromagination

Twelve South Carroll Madison, Wisconsin (608) 255-2430 www.fromagination.com A relatively new addition to the capital square in Madison, Wis., Fromagination is a cheese and specialty food shop with...

Naturally Grown: Vital Zuman Sustainable Farm
Malibu, California

29127 Pacific Coast Highway Malibu, CA 90265 (310) 457-4356 www.vitalzuman.com As temperatures climbed into the hundreds yesterday, we escaped to the breezy shores of Malibu. Inching our way up Paci...

Store Review: Savenor's Market

If you're throwing a swanky dinner and want a spread that will really impress your guests, Savenor's in Boston is the place to go. We had just such a party in the works, so we decided to indulge our c...

MixMyGranola: Custom Granola at the Click of a Mouse

Do you like granola? We do. We always think about making it ourselves, but never seem to get around to it, sadly. So we jumped at the chance to try out a new online product: MixMyGranola, which lets y...

Store Review: Penzeys Spices

If you've only ever ordered from Penzeys Spices online and have never been to a brick-and-mortar store, we highly recommend seeing if there's one in your area. For home cooks like us, visiting the sto...

Cornish Flavor: Padstow Farm Shop
Padstow, England

The small fishing port of Padstow, Cornwall, has become known as one of the food capitals of England, with gourmet restaurants and specialty shops offering fresh fish, seasonal produce, Cornish pastie...

Behind the Scenes With Taza: How Chocolate is Made

We felt like we'd won the golden ticket when we were invited to go on a behind-the-scenes tour of Taza Chocolate in Somerville, Massachusetts. You didn't have to ask us twice! Taza has been producin...

New Tea for Spring: Orchid Oolong

We've been drinking chai all winter and now that it seems like spring is here to stay (knock on wood), we feel ready for a change. We picked up a sampler of orchid oolong tea the other day, and alread...

Storyville Coffee Company: Fresh Coffee at Your Door

We recently had the opportunity to try out fresh coffee beans from Storyville, a Seattle coffee company that sends their beans direct to your door. But this isn't just any mail-order coffee service. S...

A Tour of Grand Central Market
New York

Grand Central Market is a long, often very crowded arcade of food stalls on one end of Grand Central Terminal. We think of it as a pit stop for commuters, a mecca of prepared foods and last-minute din...

Online Resource: Regional Best

RegionalBest.com is a new e-commerce site offering hundreds of foods that are raised, caught or produced by local artisans. Foods appealing to me right now are Maryland blue crab cakes, Idaho grass-fe...

Molinari Deli
San Francisco Store Review

One of San Francisco's oldest and longest-standing food markets is Molinari, which has been around since 1896. Since then, Molinari has been making some of the tastiest salamis and selling Italian gr...

Penzey's Is Coming To The Bay Area!

Attention, Bay Area spice lovers. That ubiquitous spice emporium, Penzey's, is opening their first Bay Area location soon, in Menlo Park....

Web Resource: Penzey's Spices

We just love getting the Penzey's catalog in the mail. Flipping through it and poring over each spice photograph and description is a food lover's wet dream. Just reading about a spice we've never t...

Store Review: Lehr's German Specialties
San Francisco

If you're in San Francisco and you have a hankering for Kinder eggs, elderflower syrup, some spaetzle, and a copy of Der Spiegel, have we got the store for you....

Source for Salumi: Boccalone in San Francisco

Even if you don't live in San Francisco, it's worth a peek at this salumi store's website, if only for the tagline: "Tasty Salty Pig Parts." There are also recipes and the opportunity to sign up for a...

NYC Deals: Acme Smoked Fish Sells to the Public

Acme is a family-run business in Greenpoint, Brooklyn that sells nova, whitefish, and other smoked fish to stores like Russ & Daughters and Zabar's. On Fridays from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., they sell str...

Online Chocolate Source: Chocosphere

Yesterday Faith gave us a few good sources for the chocolate féves that are no doubt in greater demand these days. They really do make the New York Times chocolate chip cookies that much better...

Corner Stores: What's Your Favorite Food Find?

If you live in a big city, chances are there's a corner store nearby (or maybe you call it a bodega). These stores carry the requisite junk food, soda, newspapers and lottery tickets, but there are us...

Boston (and New York) Store Review: Formaggio Kitchen

Our problem with Formaggio Kitchen is two-fold: 1. They actively encourage our addiction to fine cheeses and cured meats. 2. Their selection of of these items is so vast that we haven't yet been able...

San Francisco Market: Ferry Building Marketplace

The Ferry Building is a historic building that opened in San Francisco in 1898 and was a major transportation hub in San Francisco before the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge were built. Damaged in ...

Web Resource: Zingerman's

The images above are exactly why we love browsing the Zingerman's website. All of the products are illustrated in the store's characteristic, whimsical style. And aren't cheese illustrations so mu...

In the New York Times: Saul Zabar Turns 80

For any food lover living in New York, Zabar's is one of those institutions we naively believe has always been around and will always be around. Its crowded aisles and barking counterpeople seem like ...

Web Resource: Temple of Thai

Last week, we discussed Import Foods as an online resource for buying Thai food items and Thai cooking supplies. Today we'll share another Thai food resource....

Northern California Store Review: Oxbow Public Market in Napa

While in Napa last weekend, we visited the new Oxbow Public Market in downtown Napa. Oxbow is a large food hall where everything on sale is food-related in some way; from spices to tea, to wine and k...