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GourmET nEWS oCTobEr 2016 www.gourmetnews.com PASTA, GrAinS & SAuCES 2 2 Pastas, Soup Mixes and Dessert Mixes from Intermountain Specialty Intermountain Specialty Food Group, lo- cated in Salt Lake City, Utah, is a gourmet food and artisan pasta company com- prised of several brands: Plentiful Pantry, Pasta Partners, Chidester Farms, and its latest brand, Zpasta. In 1992, Debbie Chidester and her hus- band Jody transformed a passion for food into a business opportunity. Debbie had long loved entertaining friends with fabulous meals, and with her experience working in restaurants she knew what it took to con- sistently provide delicious food. Her friends wanted to eat gourmet but didn't necessar- ily want to do all the work to get it. Debbie took her own time-tested recipes, con- verted them into easy-to-prepare dishes, and voila. A new business was formed. The business started as Pasta Partners (later to become Intermountain Specialty Food Group), focused on pasta sauce blends that would easily make dishes similar to those made by the chefs in gourmet restaurants. Wanting to kick it up a notch and provide unique flavored pastas, the search for a supplier who provided the reliability and quality they demanded was not found. This did not stand in the Chidesters' way; they purchased their first pasta ma- chine and set up an artisan pasta produc- tion plant making traditional Italian-style pastas with unique flavors and shapes. The pastas are made in small batches and dried over an extended period, hand crafted and packaged to provide a firm pasta with a pleasantly soft texture for an extraordinary experience. The Pasta Partners brand features beautiful long pastas, hand tied with raffia bows and geared to gourmet retailers and gift basket companies. From the finest of angel hairs to the more substantial fettuc- cines, all contain wonderful flavors, making them perfect as side dishes or part of any gourmet meal. The ZPasta brand is the most recent ad- dition to the company's product line. These are made in the Italian tradition with bronze dies, giving them a rough texture that helps the sauce cling to the pasta. They're more shelf-friendly for grocery stores and larger retail markets. Both brands offer vibrant colors, fanciful shapes and unique flavors such as kale, butternut squash, jalapeño, roasted red bell pepper and the latest, squid ink. The Plentiful Pantry brand consists of a variety of soup mixes that are just-add-water or a few addi- tional ingredients, making them easy to prepare. The dessert mixes, for the most part, are just-add-butter- and-water, and they take less than five minutes to prep. A full line of breads, cakes and dips is also available. Intermountain Specialty Food Group currently provides private labeling services for grocery chains of all sizes. The com- pany is very proud to offer wonderful tast- ing quality food that is easy to prepare. "The Easy Way to Gourmet," Intermoun- tain Specialty Foods is for customers who want to eat well but don't always have a lot of time to spend in the kitchen. Intermountain Specialty Food Group 801.977.9077 www.intermountainfood.com Explore Cuisine has created a new line of pulse pastas including this top-selling or- ganic, gluten free, vegan Chickpea Fusilli. Packed with 11g of protein in just 2 ounces, with the texture of flour, this pasta is a homerun with consumers of all types. Only a few pasta brands have effectively built their sales, merchan- dising and marketing platforms to capital- ize on nutrition, wellness and fitness. Adding a philanthropic component to these platforms brings Explore Cuisine to the top of the healthy and alternative sec- tor within the pasta category. Two percent of all Explore Cuisine worldwide proceeds go directly to the Food To Thrive Foundation, providing educa- tion, empowerment and ad- vancement in farming programs to every Explore Cuisine team member. Explore Cuisine www.explorecuisine.com The Pulse on Pasta Bacon and Kale Olive Oil Bread Mix from Rabbit Creek Rabbit Creek Products' Bacon and Kale olive oil bread mix makes a bread with a deep golden crackling crust encapsulating dense crumb studded with kale and bacon all propped up on the grassy undertones of the olive oil. This bread is the perfect accompaniment to our fast-approaching cool weather. For more than 30 years, Rabbit Creek Products has been producing top-quality mixes to order, still in the original family and still in the same town, which is about 275 miles from the geographical center of the Lower 48. All of the mixes are still available private labeled for free, with a minimum order of only one case. Rabbit Creek Products 800.837.3073 www.rabbitcreekgourmet.com