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News.....................................2 Ad Index.............................22 Cont. on page 11 Feeding Toddlers Can Be Child's Play BY LORRIE BAUMANN Liza Huber, Founder and Chief Ex- ecutive Officer of Sage Spoonfuls, started her company in 2012 to make it easier for new parents to make their own baby food. "We don't sell any of the actual food; we just give parents everything they need to make it themselves in a very easy way," she said. "I wanted to provide parents a system that made it really easy." The company's initial product line grew to include glass storage jars for the baby food its customers are making and then to reusable snack bags, meal plates designed especially for babies just learning to feed themselves and refillable squeezable pouches for semi-fluid foods like yogurt and applesauce. "We saw that our customer base was becoming very loyal," Huber said. "They were asking the com- pany to expand the line." Huber wrote an award-winning cookbook, "Sage Spoonfuls: Sim- ple Recipes, Healthy Meals, Happy Babies," that summed up the phi- BY LORRIE BAUMANN Cedarlane Culinary created quite a bit of buzz at this year's Interna- tional Home + Housewares Show with its Spherificator, a device for transforming drops of liquid into the trendy pearls that high-end chefs have taken to using as gar- nishes for all manner of dishes. Tak- ing cues from molecular gastronomists, now home cooks can use the Spherificator to garnish sushi with ginger pearls, decorate chocolate mousse with coffee caviar or drop rum pearls onto eggnog. "Richard Blais does horseradish caviar, freezes it in liquid nitrogen and serves it on oysters so it comes out smoking from the nitrogen," said Dustin Skeoch, co-Founder of Cedarlane Culinary. "I've seen other chefs that will make 10 to 15 differ- ent flavors of pearls and serve them all as a pearl salad." Cont. on page 2 Spherificator Brings Culinary Wizardry to Home Cooks www.kitchenwarenews.com KITCHENWARE NEWS & Housewares Review Chef Darin's Kitchen Table Cooks in Savannah See page page 14 Summer Market Treasure Hunt See page page 8 Vol. 25 • Issue 4 July 2019 • $7.00