Kosher Show Review
The Kosher Show was held on November 11-12 in New York City. I only attended on November 11 with my husband. There were more than 150 booths of which appx 100 were food related. An overall theme for me seemed to be convenience kosher foods. I noticed a lot of par boiled baked goods- Crusty Bread, Laromme Bakery, Purple Pear all had these type of products. We also noticed several companies with ravioli, and dried pastas (like Contadina).
There were the usual vendors Abeles and Heyman, Manishevitz and Rokeach that you can find at your local supermarket. Here is a round up of what I saw that looked interesting.
AlcoholCow Jumped Over the Moon. Delicious French wine including a $190 Domaine Gibourd Pommard 2005. My husband remarked that you could taste the quality of these wines.
Liquori Kosher OU certified Limoncello, Orange liquer, Chocolate liquer, wild fennel liquer and myrtle liquor.
Baked Goods-DessertExceptional Brownie-brownies with flavors like Double Chocolate, Butterscotch blondie and raspberry swirl. The chocolate brownie was not too sweet.
Skinner Baking Company-interesting baked goods similar in look to entemmans. We tasted a really nice dulce de leche roulade
Strauss Bakery-beautiful cakes for weddings and simchas including a Louis Vuitton bag, hats and other cakes covered with fondant.
BeveragesThe Simple Kitchen. Sparkling water with a splash of organic juice and honey. Flavors include: white grape, lemon & mint and pink grapefruit. Beautiful packaging and tasty product.
Trim Water Nutritionally enhanced water with only 1 g of sugar and 4 calories per serving. No Artificial colors or flavors, no aspartame. Flavors include: peach-mango, blueberry-pear and lemon-citrus
Bread productBagel-Os bagels filled with fillings like cream cheese, or salmon cream cheese or blueberry cream cheese. A Kosherfest winner!
Crusty Bread-delicious french bread from France that you can bake at home!
CandyYummyEarth is introducing many new products. Some new flavors are: Blood Orange Cocktail, Chili Lime Lambada, Ginger Zest, Googly Grape, Hopscotch Butterscotch, Strawberry Smash, Roadside Root Beer, Tooberry blueberry, and Very Very Cherry. There was new mixed flavor bags of: Super Sour: with googly grape, strawberry smash, sour apple tart and very very cherry’ anti-oxi fruit drops include pomegranate pucker, tooberry blueberry, Strawberry smash and very very cherry and vitamin c drops with vitamin c added. They also have nicely packaged artisinal single candy flavors.
CheeseGad Dairies a full line of fetas and other Israeli cheese
Le Petite Fermiere has redone their labels.
Yotvata cheese-there was fresh mozarella, Scamorza, silamon, provolone, fontina and others from Italy
ChocolateChocolatewise. Truffles like Light caramel, Cappuccino, and vanilla. All dairy truffles are chalav Yisrael
Roland Foods had chocolate covered cherries with a stem
Rue Lafayette-pareve fondue sets. It comes packaged with 3 fondue flavors that you melt and use in the platter. The platter can be used at a later date to serve vegetables or other desserts.
Tumbador Gourmet Ring Dings-flourless chocolate cake filled with buttercream and enrobed in chocolate.
CondimentsAunt Lupe’s Original Jalapeno Garden Mix. A delicious condiment made with jalapenos and habanera peppers.
Colgin Worceshire sauce and liquid smoke
The Sauce Guy Delicious bbque sauce
DressingsSonny Joe’s delicious salad dressings including white wine vinaigrette and Caesar Salad as well as pickles.
FishOrkney Herring. My husband thought it was great. It comes in several marinades.
R&J Seafood Fresh fish shipped direct to you at home.
MeatRJ’s Gourmet beef jerky. Jerky in various flavors.
NutsSheffa Foods-various nut mixes
Pasta
Bruno pasta introduced a chocolate fettucini and ravioli.
Fiorella had fresh pasta like Contadina
Gad Dairies makes a ravioli filled with their delicious cheeses and mushrooms
SnackThou Shall Snack had a new Latke Chip pareve flavor-Zest Veggie as well as Babka Bites-2 flavors: chocolate and Cinnamon. The bites also hapopen to be organic.
Tomato productsGiovanni - organic salsas and tomato sauces (plain and organic) with flavors like Tomato Basil. Spicy tomato, roasted red pepper.
Other:Wagatha’s dog biscuits with flavors like Tuscan tomato and cranberry cheddar.
Interesting International ProductsFrom ArgentinaCachamai Herbal tea including Green tea, pink tea, camomile, yerba mate and Linden tree
Lipo lollipops, candies including milk flavored lollipops.
Muller-meals for the traveler including roast beef in tomato sauce. Pastrami and frankfurters. Made with 100% Argentina Glatt kosher beef. I did not get to taste them.
Pozo-Delicious vanilla madeleines, dulce de leche magdaenas, and small cakes.
From AustraliaVeggie Gourmet including fresh dips like mashed potato and onions, sweet carrots, and spicy lentils and beans. They also make fresh pestos, and antipasto and oven roasted vegetables.
From Israel:
Aunt Berta’s showed several new products such as honey, onions in red wine and reintroduced the onion jam that won a prize at kosherfest several years ago.
From PortugalGourmet Lusitano Extra virgin olive oil
Restaurant RowIt was somewhat disappointing. There were 10 restaurants. One served tortillas and salsa which I tasted at other booths. Caffe Gio served a pasta dish with pesto dressing, Chosen Garden served some Chinese food Estihana served sushi and Grille de Paris served meat. Some of the other restaurants served some dessert items, but none of the other restaurants served items from their menu. I did not get a real sense of how good their food was and why I should travel to their restaurant. I also did not take back some ideas for my own menus, or discover the types of ingredients I should have on my store shelves (koshergourmetmart.com)
Perhaps it was different on Monday.
I find this show is disappoining in comparison with the Fancy Food Show where I hunt for interesting kosher products and there is a bigger selecion. All in all, the show was fun and I did get to spend the day with my husband.
