Gluten-Free Lemon Burst Cookies From WOW Baking Wins Gold

June 27, 2012 WOW Baking Company

Gourmet Lemon Burst Cookies from WOW Baking Company were named the Outstanding Diet and Lifestyle Product in the NASFT 2012 sofi™ Awards. Winners were announced in a red-carpet ceremony in Washington, D.C., by noted chef and culinary innovator José Andrés, who presented the awards.

Greenland Brand Thalaga Cheese

I was recently at Aihua, our largest international market, and was impressed with the selection of cheeses. I was particularly intrigued by a cheese I've never seen before, Greenland brand Thalaga Cheese, because the ingredients specified it was made from buffalo milk. That's pretty unusual.

Brillat-Savarin, Named For The Famous French Gourmet & Writer

I like to keep an eye on the cheese case at Sam's Club because every now and then something really unusual pops up in there. Recently, I was surprised and delighted to find a row of imported buttons of fresh Brillat-Savarin from the French company Fromi, beckoning seductively from behind a veil of dried papaya chunks.

MontCabrer Captivates With Charcoal-Coated Rind

Montcabrer, an aged Spanish goat cheese, is among the gems exclusive to Michele Buster's company, Forever Cheese. Produced by Josep Cuixart, the same Catalan cheesemaker who devised the lovely Nevat, Montcabrer is a semi-firm, lightly pressed 3-pound wheel matured for two to three months.

Houweling’s Tomatoes Get Non-GMO Certification

Houweling's Tomatoes of Delta has completed an independent non-GMO certification in part because some customers thought their hothouse tomatoes were "too perfect" to be natural. Houweling's is just the third food producer in B.C. to certify that its products are free of genetically modified organisms with the Non-GMO Project, and is the first food grower in the province to complete the process.