Posted in About Us, Cakes & Cookies, Candy & Confections, Cheese, Coffee, Herbs, Spices, Salts & Peppers, Jams & Preserves, Olive Oil & Specialty Oils, Pasta, Staff Events, Tea, Vinegar, tagged Cheese, favorite foods, favorites, food, staff picks, staff survey, top 10 of 2012 on December 1, 2012 | 6 Comments »
At the end of each year, staff members at all three of our shops – in Cambridge, the South End and in New York – fill out a staff survey. We reflect on our year in food, pick our favorites and share memorable moments. Some items are tried-and-true favorites, regularly appearing on the survey. Others are new and exciting products that helped to define and distinguish our year in food. Here are our top ten picks culled from this year’s survey results! (more…)
Posted in Meats & Charcuterie, Staff Events, tagged bacon, food, guanciale, lardons, liver, Meats & Charcuterie, mousse, pâté, sausage on February 4, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The first round!
Just thought I would share a few photos from the staff charcuterie tasting we had at the shop on Tuesday night…
Guanciale lardons
Julie, our brilliant in-house charcutière, took staff members on a tour of some of the different products she makes. This involved a lot of delicious eating (and drinking!) as well as some serious discussion. We talked about the differences between mousse and pâté (the former does not contain any meat, only liver), about nitrates and nitrites and about the role of salt in curing, to name only a few topics that came under discussion… (more…)
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