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April 18, 2008 at 3:52 pm
· Filed under Cheese-Yogurt-Dairy, Kosher Nibbles, Top Pick Of The Week
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| Today, you can buy a piece of decent chèvre in any major city. But in the early 1980s, few people knew what chèvre—goat cheese—was. It was then that Allison Hooper learned how to make chèvre, as an apprentice cheesemaker in Brittany, and returned to Vermont with a passion to make it in the U.S. Fortunately, she found a business partner and an audience of chefs—then consumers—eager to serve her products. Vermont Butter & Cheese Company became a leader in the American artisan cheese movement, and Americans learned how to love chèvre. At VBC, as the company is fondly known, the goat cheeses were joined by European-style cow’s milk dairy products also relatively unknown to Americans: crème fraîche, mascarpone and even quark. And then came the great artisan cultured butters, higher in butterfat than American contenders and the zenith of butters, as you’ll read in detail in the full review. All of the cow’s milk products are certified kosher by KOF-K, are carried by fine retailers nationwide and are available online. Join us in exploring these award-winning, artisan dairy queens. Find more of our favorite butters and cheeses in the Butter & Cheese Section of THE NIBBLE online magazine. |
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 Crottin, the classic goat cheese shape from the Loire Valley of France, as made in the U.S.A. by Vermont Butter & Cheese Company. |
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April 18, 2008 at 3:51 pm
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Win a keepsake tin filled with 3.5 pounds of Dale & Thomas gourmet popcorn in a choice of flavors. |
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Like popcorn? Enter this week’s Gourmet Giveaway: The lucky winner of our popcorn prize will get three gifts in one! First, there’s 3.5 pounds of gourmet popcorn from Dale & Thomas (one of our favorite producers) in a choice of flavors/combos. Second, there are lots of uses for the keepsake gift tin. Third, the tin is wrapped in a colorful sack tote made from heavy, all-cotton canvas duck. While the popcorn will disappear quickly, you’ll get years of use from the sack and the tin. Certified kosher OU-Dairy. Retail value: $44.99. Enter the Gourmet Giveaway by answering a few fun trivia questions about popcorn; you don’t have to answer correctly to win. Find more of our favorite popcorns in the Snacks Section of THE NIBBLE online magazine. You’ll also enjoy the History Of Popcorn. |
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April 18, 2008 at 3:48 pm
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| Six special-edition, Spring-themed flavors of Breyers YoCrunch yogurt have replaced the core yogurt line for the season: YoCrunch with mini M&Ms candies, Oreo Cookies n’ Cream, Nestle Buncha Crunch, Butterfinger and Reese’s Pieces. The containers have a new look for springtime: themed packaging that features flowers, children at play and (aw, shucks) a baby chick with eggs. We tried the new flavors of YoCrunch recently and like them all, with the exception of the Nestle Buncha Crunch. While we enjoyed many a Crunch bar in an earlier life, the crunch nuggets that comprise Buncha Crunch taste like waxy fake food, most likely due to the confectioner’s glaze (lac resin) used to keep the nuggets crisp. Otherwise, we enjoyed mixing Butterfinger, Reese’s Pieces, M&Ms and Oreo in with our yogurt; and while this 1% milkfat line is largely vanilla-based (Buncha Crunch is made in a strawberry yogurt version as well), we’ll try it with strawberry, coffee and other flavors on our own. We like this product as a snack and dessert for kids, who want to eat candy and cookies anyway. So why not couple the junk food with a nutritious yogurt that delivers 6g of protein for the same 200 calories as a candy bar (with some live and active cultures, to boot)? The line is certified kosher OU-D. Read our full review of YoCrunch Naturals, and check out our other favorites in the Yogurt Section of THE NIBBLE online magazine. |
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Healthy yogurt marries candy or cookie pieces to create a better snack food. |
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