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GOURMET NEWS www.gourmetnews.com n JUNE 2014 n GOURMET NEWS 9 8 Delicaé Gourmet Strives to Bring You the Best Gourmet Products By Lenny Macaluso My discovery and enjoyment of interna- tional cuisine during numerous world tours with Tina Turner developed into a growing passion for gourmet food. My wife Barbara and I retired from the music industry in 1994 and relocated to a country estate in Florida where we began cultivating orchards and gardens. Barbara's flair for creating unique and exciting sauces and condiments inspired Delicaé Gourmet. Pride, dedication and commitment to the highest standards are re- flected in all of our products. Only the finest fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, coffees and teas are used to create our superb product blends. Each batch is individually hand pre- pared to assure our customers the best qual- ity and taste. Since 1997, Delicaé Gourmet has been preparing all-natural gourmet foods. These include slow cooker dinners and soups, sofi™ award winning fruit and spirit infused balsamic glazes and pasta sauces, bread top- pers, sweet and savory jams, jellies and mar- malades, mustards, chutneys, salsa, chocolate sauces, marinades, culinary sauces, bread dippers, infused oils and vine- gars and sea salt rubs. Delicaé Gourmet has created 31 all-nat- ural gourmet slow cooker dinners and soups, and 23 are gluten-free. These healthy deli- cious year-round meals are easy to prepare, taking five minutes of prep time in the morn- ing, and yield fabulous and hearty gourmet dinners and soups to serve in the evening. With delicious homemade flavor, these meals will please the entire family. Our fruit and spirit-infused balsamic glazes – perfectly balanced blends of fruit, wine and balsamic vinegar – are incredibly versatile. They are terrific on paninis or sandwiches, great as finishing sauces over grilled meats, poultry and seafood, and fab- ulous drizzled over pâté, salad or cheese. They are perfect as dessert sauces over ice cream, pound cake and fresh fruit, or as top- ping for cheesecake. For easy and delicious hors d'oeuvres our skillfully blended bread toppers make won- derful spreads for garlic bread. They are per- fect over goat cheese on thinly-sliced crusty country bread. They are excellent when used as condiments for roasted or grilled meat and poultry, and great added to pasta or quiche, or as pizza toppings. Have fun making a variety of all-natural, flavorful, creamy icings and frostings from our 12 deliciously delectable Pastry Paints™. Bedazzle your friends with Blazin' Blueberry, Heavenly Hazelnut, Marvelous Mango, Rockin' Raspberry and Sunny Strawberry. New flavors include Killer Key Lime, Crafty Cranberry and Perky Pumpkin. We also offer private labeling, co-packing services in both hot fill and dry fill, as well as food service in selected products. We strive to bring the best from our kettles to your kitchen. For more information, visit booth #4439, call 800-942-2502 or go online to www .DelicaeGourmet.com. Cornfields, Inc. – The Better-For-You Snack Company Cornfields, Inc., the better-for-you snack company, takes great pride in the two brands that were developed in house: G.H. Cretors Popped Corn and Hi I'm Skinny Sticks. In 1885, Claire Cretors' great-grandfather in- vented a machine that forever changed snacking: the commercial popcorn machine. One hundred and twenty-six years later, his great-granddaughter is writing the next chap- ter for the Cretors family, this time with the popcorn itself. Made with all-natural ingredients, and completely free of GMOs or artificial col- ors, flavors and preservatives, G.H. Cre- tors' new signature Chicago Mix combines caramel corn and cheese corn in the same bag, offering addictive, simultaneous hits of sweet, salty, crunchy and cheesy. The caramel corn is made the old fashioned way – by hand, in copper kettles. Cane sugar, brown rice and real butter are heated over a flame and then stirred slowly by hand to develop a rich, complex flavor and crunch. Equal care is exercised with mak- ing the cheese corn. Real cheddar cheese is melted in the copper kettles and then gently mixed with locally-grown, air- popped popcorn. The result is a perfect combination of two- cheese to one-caramel in every bag. And if that wasn't enough, if this new line of snacks could talk…Well, actually, G.H. Cretors' lat- est non-GMO, grain-based snacks do! Intro- ducing, Hi I'm Skinny™, a new line of better-for-you snacks that proudly proclaim their shape – and hopefully the shape you will be in after eating them. Also skinny on fat, these crunchy characters come in six new flavors! Hi I'm Skinny Sticks ® are all-nat- ural, GMO-free and pack up to 19 grams of heart-healthy whole grains per serving. In addition, the new snacks contain up to 40 percent less fat than regular potato chips! Yay! From its kitchen to yours, G.H. Cretors reminds you to…Enjoy! For more information, visit www.corn fieldsinc.com, call 800-448-6994, email sales@cornfieldsinc.com or stop by booth #2257. New Paesana Gourmet Cooking Sauces: Restaurant Quality Meals in Minutes L&S Packing Company – a family owned business that began in 1902 – is addressing the widening demand for easy-to-prepare, great tasting family meals. Its new line of Paesana Gourmet Cooking Sauces is avail- able in four flavors for simmering on meat, fish, poultry or pasta. "These savory sauces eliminate the stress of preparing a delicious meal with limited time," said Jacqueline Scaramelli-Massaro, L&S Vice President and a busy working mother. "In just 10 to 15 minutes, anyone can create restaurant-style dishes their families are sure to love. The launch of our new gourmet cooking sauces is designed to meet an increasing need among consumers...many of whom are working longer hours than ever before." According to recently released data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 59 per- cent of families have both people working. Additional studies show that 4 in 10 Ameri- can households with children under age 18 now include a mother who is either the sole or primary earner for her family. Translation? Many millions of parents, especially work- ing moms, have very little time to prepare delicious and nutritious meals for their fam- ilies. That trend will continue to grow. Paesana Gourmet Cooking Sauces are made in the U.S. with premium quality in- gredients and the sauces are Kosher certified. The new cooking sauces have undergone rig- orous quality-control processes and have also been personally taste- tested through every phase of product develop- ment. "Our great-grand- mother began making premium quality homemade sauces more than 100 years ago, working tirelessly to ensure that each sauce tasted absolutely incredible," said L&S Pres- ident Louis Scaramelli IV. "The same dedi- cation to making all of our sauces perfect has passed down through the generations of our family and today remains as strong as ever. In addition to always using the finest ingre- dients, our sauces are slow cooked and sautéed for long periods of time to capture the very best flavor." The four flavors of new Paesana Gourmet Cooking Sauces include Francese, Piccata, Scampi and Marsala. The Francese sauce is made with a blend of butter, lemon and herbs, and topped off with white wine. The Pic- cata sauce is creamy and tangy, with lemons and herbs as well as Mediterranean ca- pers that add a bold, rich finish to the taste. The aromatic Scampi sauce includes fresh cloves of garlic sautéed and combined with butter and herbs, and then finished with white wine. The Marsala sauce, a traditional Italian favorite, is made with fresh mush- rooms and Marsala wine. The entire line of sauces offers diverse, quick and easy options for consumers, enabling them to create dis- tinctive dishes. To contact Paesana, call 631-845-1717, or visit paesana.com; or come by to sample the new Paesana Gourmet Cooking Sauces and Pasta Sauces at booth #1250. St. Pete's Select Blue Cheese – Award-Winning Quality With its pronounced piquant sharpness and its creamy mouth feel, St. Pete's Select ® has been dazzling discerning blue cheese lovers with its unique taste since its launch in 2002. Over the last year in particular, it has gained recognition in several prestigious cheese competitions across the nation, proving it is deserving of its place as the signature pre- mium blue cheese from Caves of Faribault. This cheese, whose name is derived from the St. Peter's sandstone caves in which it is aged, is part of Caves of Faribault's Am- ablu ® line of cheeses. Aged the longest of these cheeses at over 100 days, St. Pete's Se- lect develops a flavor profile that has been described as "complex, complicated yet de- lightfully intimate." It is this distinctive taste that has pleased judges this past year in some of the nation's top contests. This year, St. Pete's Select was named a winner at the 2014 Good Food Awards, a contest which honors American food produc- ers whose products are not only delicious, but also responsibly produced. The cheese was recognized not only for its craftsman- ship, but for its sustainability. This was quickly followed by the 2014 World Cham- pionship Cheese Contest, where the cheese took Second Place in its category. This contest, hosted by the Wisconsin Cheese Makers Association (WCMA), is a bien- nial event that is the largest technical evaluation of cheese and butter in the country, attracting partici- pants from across the nation. Other notable awards from 2013 include a "Best of Class" at the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest, Third Place at the American Cheese Society's annual contest, First Place at the Minnesota State Fair through the Upper Midwest Dairy Industry Association (UMDIA), Second Place in the North Cen- tral Cheese Industry Association's (NCCIA) contest and Third Place at the National Milk Producers Fed- eration's (NMPF) annual cheese competition. About Caves of Faribault Caves of Faribault is a spe- cialty blue cheese maker lo- cated on a tall sandstone bluff in Faribault, Minn. The company uses the ideal environmental properties present in the natural sandstone caves to cure and age its cheeses. In 2010, Swiss Valley Farms, a Midwestern dairy cooperative, acquired Caves of Faribault, uniting two of the indus- try's most experienced blue cheese makers. For more information, visit www.caves offaribault.com or stop by booth #368.

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