(Gerry Furth-Sides) Sitram USA is as passionate as the French in love can be for their contemporary store-top pressure cookers. That’s love convinced me to start using it as a pressure cooker instead of as the beautiful stainless steel thick-clad based stockpot I love that is also perfect for regular cooking. Jill Nu...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) We were hooked on Honey Roasted Peanut Butter at the first spoonful. So this pumpkin product is our favorite among the fanatical rush to use this fall, seasonal culinary darling. Blending Pumpkin Spice and Pumpkin Flakes brings out a remarkable Pumpkin Pie flavor. It is holiday-worthy whether spread on...
At first an item that came across our desk seemed a totally zany idea: Munk Pack’s ready-to-eat Oatmeal Fruit Squeezes to time with “National Breakfast Month” and the back-to-school season. But much to our surprise, the product tastes great (it could have a little more texture, true), so much more satisfying th...
(Roberta Deen) Laurel Gallucci and Claire Thomas’ book, SWEET LAUREL, Recipes for Whole Food, Grain-Free Desserts is a guide to overcoming adversity and limitations in the home kitchen. These two friends have written the perfect “make lemonade” cookbook. Like many things, SWEET LAUREL, the bakery, was b...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) HATCH CHILE is here, and only for six weeks. And they MUST be from Hatch, NM. It is the altitude in this southern New Mexican area that infuses the unique characteristic, cold at night and hot in the daytime. Like mesquite in the 80’s, New Mexican cooks have known about them […]...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) American County Fairs are as old as 1772, and the Orange County fair brings all the excitement and nostalgia of the best of them. A celebration of Orange County’s communities, interests, agriculture and heritage – not planned in a structured, stiff commercial way, but filled with the creativity and ...
(Roberta Deen, food stylist, photographer) Simple Mills is a thriving young company founded by Katlin Smith. She holds the firm belief that clean “intentional ingredients” can be combined to create wholesome baked goods, easily used by home cooks. Each of the Simple Mills mixes is printed with clear instructions and ...
(Roberta R. Deen, writer/stylist) The impeccable packaging was the first thing that impressed me about Harney & Sons when the gift box of sample teas arrived. The elegant black and gold gift box, with its embossed gold logo, emerged from the humble cardboard shipping carton. The sample box contained four black and...
(Gerry Furth-Sides) How do you promote a heartburn medicine to Millennials and foodies? PEPCID® has the medicine and Feastly has the event spaces and diner market. So by way of a New York PR company they partnered to create a series of dinners to trigger heartburn with chefs. Chef Bruce Kalman, known for his […]...
(Roberta Deen) The Garden Lites company is focused on getting more vegetables into home menus and they are sneaky about it. Carrots and zucchini are the first two ingredients in their veggie-forward snack muffins. You would never suspect it from the flavors and textures of these moist little cakes. While we are not...
Gerry Furth-Sides 
Barbara Hansen 
Chef-owner Alain Cohen 
Roberta Deen 
Jose Martinez 
Nivedita Basu 