2007 Kosherfest review
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.
Alcohol
Cow 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-Dessert
Exceptional 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.
Beverages
The 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 product
Bagel-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!
Candy
YummyEarth 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.
Cheese
Gad 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
Chocolate
Chocolatewise. 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.
Condiments
Aunt 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
Dressings
Sonny Joe’s delicious salad dressings including white wine vinaigrette and Caesar Salad as well as pickles.
Fish
Orkney Herring. My husband thought it was great. It comes in several marinades.
R&J Seafood Fresh fish shipped direct to you at home.
Meat
RJ’s Gourmet beef jerky. Jerky in various flavors.
Nuts
Sheffa 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
Snack
Thou 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 products
Giovanni - 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 Products
From Argentina
Cachamai 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 Australia
Veggie 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 Portugal
Gourmet Lusitano Extra virgin olive oil
Restaurant Row
It 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.
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.
Alcohol
Cow 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-Dessert
Exceptional 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.
Beverages
The 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 product
Bagel-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!
Candy
YummyEarth 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.
Cheese
Gad 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
Chocolate
Chocolatewise. 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.
Condiments
Aunt 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
Dressings
Sonny Joe’s delicious salad dressings including white wine vinaigrette and Caesar Salad as well as pickles.
Fish
Orkney Herring. My husband thought it was great. It comes in several marinades.
R&J Seafood Fresh fish shipped direct to you at home.
Meat
RJ’s Gourmet beef jerky. Jerky in various flavors.
Nuts
Sheffa 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
Snack
Thou 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 products
Giovanni - 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 Products
From Argentina
Cachamai 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 Australia
Veggie 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 Portugal
Gourmet Lusitano Extra virgin olive oil
Restaurant Row
It 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.
posted by home reno at 7:47 AM
2 Comments:
FROM MELBOURNE AUSTRALIA KASHRUT Authority the award wining Extra Virgin Olive Oil from Redisland Australia. Already available in New York, Los Angeles, Houston etc (eg Stop & Shop, Walbraums, A&P Ralphs,Nob Hill, Save Mart etc ..go to www.redisland.com and see.
KOSHERFEST NEW YORK DISPLAYS REDISLAND AUSTRALIA LTD’S 100% OLIVE OIL (Extra Virgin Olive Oil) for the first time.
Unbeknown to many of even the finest food connoisseurs, the majority of imported virgin olive oil products on our supermarket shelves are not in fact, pure olive oil at all, posing a significant question regarding the current Kashrut laws with respect to olive oil.
Currently, all extra virgin olive oil is considered kosher. However, while many high quality brands in particular imported oils claim their “extra virgin” olive oil is 100% pure, recent tests carried out by the Australian NSW Government authorities, have proved otherwise. Funded by the Australian Olive Industry, the tests uncovered that the majority of imported olive oil, although sold in Australia as extra virgin, are in fact poorer quality oils, which in some cases contain a mixture of other oil varieties including canola oil.
Olives have an important and ancient connection with Judaism, being one of Israel’s seven agricultural species. Further, the use of olive oil in Jewish life traces back more than 2000 years to an ancient olive press still present at the base of Jerusalem’s Mount of Olives.
With a potential issue posed in verifying the percentage by volume of extra virgin olive oil (cold pressed) contained in the imported olive oils, a new Australian olive oil product will be widely welcomed by the kosher community when made available later this month. Redisland Extra Virgin Olive Oil is 100% pure extra virgin olive oil and certified Kosher by the Kashrut Authority of Australia for use during both Passover and throughout the year.
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Dear Bella
You are so right and after doing a tasting of the local olive oils with those from the Mediterranean there is NO doubt the Australian olive oil has a fresher taste, nicer aroma and a compliment to to the chef's cuisine. In fact the redisland is 5 star on the tasting wheel and on the quality assessment charts whereas it competitors are closer to 3 star.
During the month of July tastings of the oil will be held on the 4th July in Toronto, 6th July Toronto, 15th through to the 28 in New York, August 5-17 in Rio de Janeiro, 19th to 21st in Los Angeles for any distributors, executive chefs that wish to email Steven.horton@redisland.com
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