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34 GOURMET NEWS www.gourmetnews.com Experience Gourmet Bakery Treat with Lance Private Brand's Brent & Sam's Cookies Brent & Sam's premium gourmet cookies deliver a delicious taste excursion. Extravagantly indulgent, these slow-baked cookies feature the highest quality ingredients with no added preservatives. Brent & Sam's premium gourmet cookies offer the highest turning indulgent flavors and are available in small crisp (bite-size), large crisp, soft and chewy, and all-natural flavors. The Brent & Sam's philosophy is simple. Brent & Sam's bakes every batch of premium cookies using only the highest quality ingredients. Many food companies claim to use only the finest ingredients, but Brent & Sam's really does. For uncompromising taste and quality, real butter and margarine, sugars and vanilla extract are combined and baked into flavorful cookies. Brent & Sam's uses top of the line nuts, purchasing the "fancy" grade for its delicious cookies. Large chocolate chips, although they are more expensive, are mixed in. Most importantly, Brent & Sam's has a higher ratio of inclusions than found in other cookies: more chocolate chips per cookie, more pecans, macadamia nuts and raisins, ingredients consumers love with absolutely no trans fats or preservatives. Brent & Sam's slow bake process provides ingredients the chance to caramelize and bake into an Buddy Squirrel Introduces Branded Products to San Francisco By Emily Zager, Marketing Coordinator, Buddy Squirrel Since 1916, Buddy Squirrel has been combining the best of both worlds when it comes to satisfying your sweet tooth or craving for salt. We offer quality confections, boxed chocolates, stylish gift tins, premier nuts from around the world, snacks and award-winning gourmet popcorns. Buddy Squirrel is currently revitalizing bulk sales with new kosher confections, healthy snack mixes, private labeling and redesigned packaging. We aim to continue cultivating a tradition of excellence as we celebrate the launch of our new gourmet Popcorn Cup line at the 2014 Winter Fancy Food Show. The collection of grab-and-go popcorn cups will also be available in a variety of flavors and sizes. Customers can now take the flavor with them wherever they go, while snacking on our award-winning Cheddar, Caramel, Crazy Corn® and Mixed Nut Caramel Corns. Buddy Squirrel embraces confectionary traditions while the company expands in its wholesale division. New items include products that infuse our signature Whipped Crème Treats with energy drinks, as well as White Cheddar Cheezzzy® Cheese Corn. We are happy to introduce Honey Bites, a An Overnight Success: Premium Baking Flavors from LorAnn Oils Candy makers have relied on LorAnn Oils for their flavoring needs for over 50 years, and now bakers have discovered the company's products as well. LorAnn's extensive selection of premium flavorings offers versatility and superior quality to home bakers and professionals. For bakers, the LorAnn Flavoring product line encompasses a variety of formats: Bakery Emulsions, SuperStrength Flavors, Premium Vanilla Extracts and Vanilla Bean Paste. Nearly all products are certified kosher, sweetener-free and gluten-free. All are available in retail and bulk sizes. The Bakery Emulsion product line was introduced just a few years ago, and has seen tremendous growth over this brief time period. These flavors are similar in strength to a typical baking extract, but unlike extracts, the flavors are suspended in a water-base instead of an alcohol-base. The emulsions taste more natural and robust, and will not bake-out when exposed to heat. Peppermint and Pumpkin Spice flavors are new this year, and join 14 other flavors, including Red Velvet, Almond, Lemon, Buttery Sweet Dough, Cream Cheese and Raspberry. LorAnn's Super-Strength Flavors, also known as candy oils, work equally well Start a Steamy Romance with Texas Tamale Company By Louis McEneny, Manager of Sales and Marketing, Texas Tamale Company Looking to give your customers a taste of something fresh? Our Select tamales are brand spanking new and making their debut appearance at the Fancy Food Show. Please try to contain yourselves. Anyone can tell you that tamales are hardly a health food, and that's where we like to shake things up. All of our tamales are made from corn with no wheat ingredients, so they're naturally gluten-free. Our masa is proudly free of lard and GMO ingredients in our oil, corn and spices, just as an added bonus (on top of the whole deliciousness thing). We then put the same care and attention extremely flavorful, gourmet cookie. Brent & Sam's come in a variety of flavors and sizes. Chocolate Chip Pecan, White Chocolate Macadamia Nut, Key Lime White Chocolate and Caribbean Crunch are among Brent & Sam's classic recipes. Brent & Sam's now has a new flavor: Shortbread, all butter recipe. Additionally, several varieties are made with a 100 percent natural recipe that provides a great solution for consumers looking for delicious tasting cookies sweetened with organic evaporated cane syrup, real butter and all-natural ingredients. Brent & Sam's cookies are available in regular and bite-sized crispy cookies, in smaller sizes such as 1.9 ounce and 2.5 ounces, and multi-serve sizes of 7 and 7.2 line of honey and granola-based bars as an alternative to our chocolate Buddy Bars. This new collection includes flavors such as Cinnamon, Almond & Raisin, Pistachio Cashew, Cranberry and Peanut Butter and Raisin & Seeds. Buddy Squirrel is thrilled to present these creations at the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, along with an assortment of Easter items and signature Fairy Food®. Buddy Squirrel currently owns and operates three retail locations in the metro Milwaukee area. Our celebrated products include Butter Almond Toffee, Pecan Tads® and Deluxe Mixed Nuts. We also offer iced drinks, ice cream with toppings and a range of dipped products. Our customers are invited to schedule tours to witness over 45,000 square feet of confection making magic at our state-of-the-art kitchen. Buddy Squirrel confections are sold across the for flavoring baked goods and icings as they do for candies and chocolate. These concentrated flavors are three to four times stronger than typical extracts which means a little goes a long way. With over 100 flavors, many of them natural, why be limited to just almond and vanilla for baking when you can enjoy tangerine, key lime, hazelnut, champagne, or toffee—nearly any flavor you can think of. Of course, good quality vanilla will always be a baker's best friend, and LorAnn has become a significant supplier of Premium Madagascar Vanilla Extract and Bean Paste. Attractively packaged for retail trade into each of our tamale fillings. Because high-quality meat—and great taste—is important to us, we use only vegetarian-fed beef and chicken with no added hormones and no antibiotics. We know that nobody likes to be excluded, so we try to make sure that we have a little something for everybody. Our vegetarian friends can enjoy the same lard-free tamale base as everyone else, but with savory black bean and spinach fillings. What's important to you and your customers matters to us as well, and we think n JANUARY 2014 n GOURMET NEWS ounces. Soft and chewy varieties of classic homemade recipes are individually wrapped and available in 1 ounce and 8.6 ounce packages. These smaller size packages and individually wrapped soft and chewy varieties are great for gift baskets. In addition, bulk packs of cookies are available in 2-ounce and 8-ounce bags, providing customers the opportunity to use their own packaging for gift baskets or other needs. All premium cookies are baked to order, ensuring the freshest cookies for you and your customers. For more information on Brent & Sam's gourmet cookies, visit www.lanceprivate brands.com, call 800-553-2343 or stop by booth #1370 at the Winter Fancy Food Show. country through wholesalers and specialty food and candy stores, and can be directly purchased from our website. From our beginnings selling confections on the cobblestone streets of Milwaukee, we've used pure Swiss-style chocolate and traditional home-style recipes that have pleased generations of customers. We stand by our commitment to provide exceptional products for our friends around the world. The heart of Buddy Squirrel is our mission to delight customers with friendly service and the experience of the world's finest confections made with premium chocolate, nuts and popcorn. Visit Buddy Squirrel at booth #3415 during the Winter Fancy Food Show. For more information or to place an order, visit www.buddysquirrel.com, email sales@ buddysquirrel.com or call 800-972-2658. and aggressively priced for the professional user, the vanilla is all natural and available in single and twofold strengths. Exotic and aromatic Tahitian Vanilla as well as Clear Vanilla rounds out this important product line. Product quality and prompt customer service are pillars of LorAnn Oils' company philosophy. Focused on serving the small- to medium-sized manufacturer, LorAnn still maintains a no minimum order policy and most orders ship within 48 hours of receipt. During the Winter Fancy Food Show, visit LorAnn Oils at booth #635. For more information, call 800-862-8620 or visit www.lorannoils.com. it makes sense to make a product that people feel good about eating. For those keeping track, that's no GMOs, no hormones, no antibiotics, no lard and no wheat, all in a gluten-free bundle that's vegetarianfriendly. If we were inclined to draw parallels, we might call these the Holy Grail of the dinner (or lunch) table. What's not to love? Visit us at booth #715 for a taste of our tamale know-how. For more information, visit www.texas tamale.com, call 713-795-5500 or stop by booth #715 at the Winter Fancy Food Show.