Adventures in running a web-based food business
Now a Test Can Tell If Your Pricey Cup of Cat Poop Coffee is Fake Yep, that’s right, there are people pretending their coffee beans have been pooped by a cat when they haven’t. Just mull (brew?) that over for a second. Now that you’ve wrapped your head around the concept of civet-poop-coffee-fraud…read this article …
I’m man enough to admit that sometimes I walk around in little plastic blue bootees. Hey, they may not be the most stylish footwear on the planet, but when you’re going to the source you sometimes have to eschew fashion for food safety. On a recent food scouting trip to Italy I got a chance …
On a recent food scouting trip to Italy, I got to visit Compagnia del Montale, producers of our aged balsamic vinegars and two-time winners of the Spilamberto Prize for best balsamic in the world. We’ve discussed how balsamic vinegars are made elsewhere. All traditional balsamics are made from cooked grape must, but there’s actually another, …
Pretty much any product wrapped in plastic in a regular supermarket has been made by a machine. Ignore the pictures on the label of smiling workers or farms and imagine a really BIG machine. It doesn’t matter how many factories I go to. They are always surprising. On a recent procurement trip to Japan, I …
I have seen a lot of forms of slaughter, but none creeped me out more than the way I saw eels being killed at the Tsukiji Fish Market on a recent food scouting mission to Japan. My initial notes read: “One disturbing thing at this market was that the eels apparently need to be filleted …
I just had a two week food scouting mission in Japan, home of one of the world’s great cuisines. I learned a ton about Japanese cuisine and ingredients. Here’s a few of my observations. Food Aesthetics are very important. Roundness, size and color together seem to be as important as flavor. Japanese consumers will pay …
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Marx Foods and 14 of Seattle’s top chefs are coming together to throw a party to raise money to support WA Initiative 522 (which would require labeling GMOs). I’d love to see you there – Bite Nite’s going to be the tastiest ticket in town! For the price of admission you get: • 15 amazing …
People have been mechanically tenderizing beef for ages – I’m sure you’ve all seen cube steaks in the grocery store with that distinctive odd-looking texture. If it’s a tender cut from the round you’re looking for, there’s nothing wrong with taking a meat mallet, needler, or other mechanical tenderizing system to tougher cuts of beef …
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There’s nothing like watching someone you admire work their ass off and achieve an absolutely enormous goal. I could not be more proud of Chris Tanghe for becoming a Master Sommelier. Most of you probably won’t be aware of the certification, the prestige that comes with it, or the incredible amount of time, work and effort that goes …
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When it comes to beef, marbling is key. This interspersed thin layers of fat throughout muscle is used to judge beef quality (that’s how Select, Choice & Prime are decided). It’s believed to play an important role in tenderness, flavor and moistness. But when it comes to grain-fed beef produced in the US, marbling is …
Farmers and agricultural colleges have long experimented with tweaking livestock feed to improve weight-gain and animal health. Farm animals need help growing, especially in feedlots where illness spreads quickly because the animals are crammed into an unnatural habitat and fed an unnatural diet. In conventional American agriculture, antibiotics and/or hormones are routine, but I have recently heard …
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