2010 summer fancy food show report
Highlights are:
Sara Snacker Cookies
I loved this company. As they say on their site "Nostalgia will fill your eyes while delicious cookies and treats fill your belly."
Flavors include: Chipn'etzel Chipn’etzel ™— The Original Potato Chip and Pretzel Cookie Vanilla Milkshake Cookie, and lemonade cookeis (with real lemonade inside)
Star D/Dairy.
Shiloh's sauces.
Shiloh is a restaurant in LA and is now bottling the sauces they use in their restaurant. Flavors include: Harissa, a haroset tapenade, mild flavor and spicy flavor, chimichurri, béarnaise, Caribbean, shilohs famous bar b que sauce and bottled in an exquisite bottle and jar. The bernaise was my favorite. I showed the packaging to someone on the bus to the train and they thought it looked great. No preservatives, no msg, no gmos, no trans fat, no articial colors or flavors and gluten free
OU kosher/Pareve
jams
Harvest Song preserves.
I reported last year that they were going to be kosher under the OU. Now, their packaging is starting to reflect this fact. I tried their Wild Strawberry preserves. I generally do not like jams but this wild strawberry preserve was phenomenal. Some other flavors are: apricot (nasft gold winner 2006), peach, quince, tea rose petal, golden fig, fresh walnut and sour cherry (nasft gold winner 2007)
OU Kosher/Pareve
Baking mixes/baking products
Caffe D'Amore
new line of baking products like unsweetened chocolate powder, sweet ground chocolate powder, and gelato starters-vanilla and chocolate. Also decadent chocolate cupcake kit, mocha kiss kit and candy cane cocoa kit. all three ready to be gifted.
OU Kosher/Dairy
Cobblestone Kitchen
gourmet cupcake mixes like lemon poppyseed and chocolate caramel as well as gourmet scone mixes like cranberry, cranberry blueberry.
COR/Dairy
Iron Chef
Cake mixes, fondant
May Cookie Company.
3 baking mixes made with wholesome, all-natural ingredients. 3 flavors: oatmeal & cranberry (pareve), double chocolate chip oatmeal and rich and chewy chocoalte chocolate chip which is dairy free, egg free (but OUD)
OU Kosher
Peanut Butter & Co
They have 3 kosher pareve baking mixes: peanut butter cookies, peanut butter swirl brownies and chocolate peanut butter cupcakes.
OU Kosher/Pareve
Ticings decorative edible icing sheets
These are decorative items that quickly add modern design features to cakes, cookies, brownies and cupcakes. it’s as simple as peel and press! ticings dot-free, photographic quality art brings instant originality to your baked products, and the flavor of your frosting is the only thing you’ll taste.
OU kosher
Beverage
Cobblestone Kitchen
drink mixes like martinis, daquiris, along with rim trims. They also have gourmet hot chocolate mixes
COR/Dairy
Fizzy Lizzy
Proud winner of 2007 sofi™ Silver medals for “Outstanding Product Line” and “Outstanding Cold Beverage” from the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade (NASFT).Flavors include: yakima grape, raspberry lemon, pomegranate, pineapple and tangerine.
OU Kosher/Pareve
Tamaya gourmet
From the people who sell the chilean carica comes chilean blueberry juice, blueberry raspberry juice
Certified kosher by Itzhack Shaked, Rabbi of the Jewish Orthodox Community of Chile
Chocolate/Confections
Jo's candies
Chocolate covered grahams, dark salt caramels, milk salt caramels
Kosher LA
Rogue Confections
Chocolate disks with beautiful patterns on each
Star D Kosher/Dairy
Salazon
3 chocolate bars with salt. Dark chocolate w/natural sea salt, Dark chocolate w/natural sea saltand organic turbinado cane sugar and Dark chocolate w/natural sea salt and organic black pepper. The salt and black pepper was really interesting-it seems to be a new trend because I came across two other companies with this flavor (one was kosher) Organic too! The chocolate bar itself is not scored but has a beautiful picture.
OU Kosher Dairy
Taza Chocolate
This is chocolate that is stone ground by hand so it has a nibby taste. All products are OU kosher pareve. Flavors include: Cinnamon Chocolate Mexicano, vanilla bean chocolate mexicano, yerba mate Chocolate Mexicano, salt and pepper chocolate mexicano as well as chocolate bars with different cacao levels.
OU Kosher/Pareve
T'cho chocolate
I tried their two milk chocolates. One was fudgy and one was caramelly. Both were great. They also have chocolate at different cacao levels as well as a drinking chocolate.
Earth kosher/Dairy
Condiments
Funnibonz
FunniBonz products are designed and created following our exclusive “BBQ/365” philosophy. We believe that there are many ways to appreciate a good barbeque sauce aside from just cranking up the grill in the summertime! That’s why all FunniBonz products are designed to maintain their consistency whether cooked on a grill, heated on your stove, or used as a sauce in your oven. They are formulated to offer the most versatile flavors whether you are making ribs, chicken, fish, beef, or veggies. Although there are few guarantees in life, one thing is certain; you will never have better BONZ than those dressed by FunniBonz. And we promise that you’ll be back for more! No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Flavors: original,spicy, and fiery chipotle,
OU Kosher/Pareve
Gold Mine Organic
Raw organic cabbage with celtic sea salt. Delish
Kof K Kosher/Pareve
Hot Squeeze
They have added new flavors: sweet heat chipotle, and orange ginger zing
OU Kosher/Pareve
Santa Fe Original Chipotle Mayonnaise
New light chipotle infused mayonnaise.
OU Kosher/Pareve
Woeber Mustard Mayo gourmet.
Several flavors: kickin Buffalo, roasted chipotle, dill, and toasted garlic. Yum.
OU Kosher/Pareve
Ginger People
This is a company that has been around for 25 years and some of their products are kosher. OU products include beverages like ginger soother and ginger 'gizer. Other products certified by Kosher certification service of Hong Kong: sttem ginger in syrup, ginger spread. many items are also gluten free.
Baked goods-Cakes,Cookies/crackers
Daelia's Biscuits for cheese
Daelia's Biscuits for Cheese were inspired by their love of cheese and their pursuit of a good cheese companion. All products are made from fresh natural ingredients and are baked to order. Almond and hazelnut and fig flavors
OU Kosher/Pareve
Divvies
New cookie flavor - Double Chocolate Brownie Bites. This was the winner of the Food Allergy & Anaphylaxis Network (FAAN) contest
KVH/Pareve
Donseumor
Madelines and cutie cakes-little white or chocolate cakes with icing.
Kosher LA/Dairy
Dr. Lucy's Cookies
gluten-free cookies are made without milk, eggs, peanuts or tree nuts. Flavors: Chocolate chip, sugar, cinnamon thin and oatmeal
Now Star K/Pareve
Glow cookies
All natural gluten free cookies. Flavors: gingersnap, double ckocolate, snickerdoodle and chocolate chip
OU Kosher/Pareve
RW Garcia
5 seed gluten free corn crackers with flavors like onion and chive, tellicherry cracked pepper and rosemary and garlic
OU Kosher /Dairy
Taste Sunny meadows Cookies
Gluten Free. Flavors like chocolate chunk with: cranberries, raisins, almonds, pecans.
OU Kosher/Pareve
Honey
Hnz Honey
Infused honeys from New Zealand. Manuka honey with raspberry, apricot, cinnamon, blueberry and others
Kiwi Australia Kosher/Pareve
Tea Forte has a delicious star thistle honey.
Heart K (keillah kashrus)/Pareve
Pickles
Root cellar preserves.
Canning and pickling have been an American tradition since homesteaders arrived in the new world. Today, preserving fruits and vegetables has become a lost art. Root Cellar Preserves now offers a variety of delicious pickled products once commonplace, but now hard to find. Root Cellar Preserves honors the tradition of wholesome foods made with integrity and craftsmanship. We select produce and pickled products from small family producers who carry on the tradition of pickling with only the finest brines and spices, using traditional pickling processes to make the best tasting products available. Root Cellar Preserves is committed to the preservation of early American homesteads. Many of these buildings, which represent the historical foundation of our country are giving way to disrepair, neglect and rural development. Root Cellar Preserves has established a fund from its proceeds to support local community efforts to preserve these homesteads for future generations.
Most products are kosher certified and include: sweet bread and butter pickle chips. sweet apple cinnamon pickles and spicy dill pickle mix
OU Kosher/Pareve
Seasonings
House of Autry
Choice of Southern Cooks since 1812. Items include: corn meal, seafood breader and hush puppy mixes
Most Star-D/Dairy
Magic Crumbs
Magic Crumbs come in flavors ranging from Smokey BBQ to Pommerey Mustard to Cajun to Toasted Coconut. They come in attractive packaging
OU Kosher/Pareve
Snacks
Corazonas
Potato and Tortilla chips
Chip Flavors: parmesan peppercorn, spicy rio habanero (kof-k dairy).
Tortilla chip flavors: squeeze of lime, black bean and cheese (OU-D)
Oatmeal Squares
chocolate chip, banana walnut, cranberry flax, peanut butter and chocolate brownie and almonds (kofk-Dairy)
Jody's Gourmet Popcorn
Jody's Gourmet Popcorn is created with only the finest, freshest, quality ingredients including luscious caramel, rich chocolate, savory cheeses, and Virginia peanuts to guarantee the most delicious popcorn flavors. Flavors include: Double Cheddar, Recipe 53 Caramel Corn, Cheesy Ranch,Funfetti with Caramel. Comes in many forms of packaging.
OU Kosher/Dairy
Oogie's
yummy popcorn with flavors like white cheddar, smoked gouda, asiago and cracked pepper and romano and pesto
Kof-K/Dairy
Popchips
Popped potatoes, never fried or baked. Flavors: bbq, sour cream and onion and salt and pepper.
Kof-K/dairy
Snikiddy
yummy snacks with flavors like mac 'n cheese puffs, pizza puffs and baked fries with flavors like parmesan garlic and ketchup (really tastes ketchupy)
Kof-K/Dairy
Tea
Dilmah
Merrill J. Fernando set out in the 1950s to offer tea drinkers the finest tea on earth. Whilst doing so, he desired to make his a genuinely ethical brand. It took nearly four decades for Merrill to fulfill his mission, but in 1988 he launched his family tea - Dilmah - the first producer owned tea brand in the world, handpicked, perfected and packed at source and shipped within days to tea drinkers around the world.
OU Kosher/Pareve
Honest Tea
New Lemonade tea. My daughter tried it and said yum.
OU kosher/Pareve
New Leaf
Maker of bottled ice teas with varieties of white teas, green teas, blue tea and black tea.
Runa
For thousands of years communities throughout the Amazon have cultivated the guayusa leaf for a natural, delicious source of energy and nutrition. Treasured for its unique balance of caffeine, antioxidants, vitamins and amino acids guayusa continues to be the center of morning rituals throughout the Amazon. Every harvest, local farmers hand-pick guayusa leaves from the rich soil under the canopy of the Amazon rainforest. Sip slowly and enjoy as you awaken your mind and fortify your body with Runa.
Silence tea
The perfect union between all natural ingredients and Chakra philosophy, yoga practice, and holistic healing, Silence Tea transcends the basic tea to promote a balanced, calm, and relaxed existence. Journey into a state of bliss with these all natural, refreshing, healthy premium brews of the finest tea leaves in the world. Transcend into the realm of calm with centuries-old chamomile and natural relaxation ingredient L-theanine. We invite you to open the gates to higher consciousness and discover the benefits of living a more wholesome and healthier life by awakening and activating your body's Chakra system with this revolutionary relaxation tea beverage. The Chakras are the seven key energy centers of our body. These energy centers balance, store, and distribute energies of life throughout our physical and spiritual body. When all seven Chakras are active and functioning optimally, we experience an overall healthy mind, body, and spirit. Silence Tea has been specially formulated to awaken and activate your body's Chakra system and truly experience the essence of inner peace, harmony, and zen balance. Whether your journey includes yoga, transcendence, or holistic healing, escape to a state of meditative tranquility and experience a peaceful sanctuary within the realm of Silence Tea.
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OU kosher/Dairy
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Tea Forte
Beautifully packaged teas. Many flavors Kof-K pareve.
Tuna
Safcol
flavored salmon with flavors like lemon and pepper, lemon and cracked pepper, spicy chilly chipotle and cajun spice.
OU Kosher/Pareve
Wild Planet
Wild Planet is committed to providing the finest tasting sustainably caught seafood while supporting the conservation of wild marine ecosystems.
OU Kosher/Pareve
Soon to be kosher
Giambri's quality sweets
Chocolate covered pretzels with m&ms, nonpareils as well as chocolate covered belgian waffles
kof-K/dairy
Julia Baker Confections.
Julia Baker Confections' signature chocolate recipes include truffles and hand-cut artisan chocolates, ranging in flavors from dark ganache to passion fruit. Each piece is handmade, prepared with meticulous care and great attention to detail, making for a superior chocolate experience.
Will be kosher under Greater Phoenix Vaad Hakashruth
Julian's waffles
They are authentic Liège-style Belgian waffles made with all natural ingredients. Regularly consumed hot or at room temperature, for breakfast, lunch, dinner, as a snack, with toppings or alone in the streets of Belgium.
Marcy's Croutons
They are planning on being kosher once again soon.