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- All of Lark’s cookies were delicious.
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- Chocolate bars that come with MP3 downloads!
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- Good baklava from Jordan. They are looking for a distributor.
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- There was a ton of pig leg slicing going on at this show. This was Crudi D’Italia form Italy.
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- Good Beer from Scotland, and their representative is a great guy! I had to tweet them!
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- This was a great class that highlighted various flavors and products used in Korean cuisine.
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- All their products were very tasty. I had to go back for thirds on this salmon.
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- Better than meat substitute cold cuts should be.
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- Pickles form Brooklyn! How can you go wrong?
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- I attended a Taza event and Oyamel made a great dessert and a drink called High Tea with their chocolate.
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- TWK doesn’t like sun chokes but I made her try these and she loved them!
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- Exceptionally good mozzarellas! They know their cheese making.
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- The chocolate caramels are very good. I have some of the winter spice variety at home, but haven’t tried them yet.
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- Beer and cheese! And, it’s a great cheese!
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- This cheese maker produced some great cheeses!
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- Pretty!
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- Sarah Scarborough is their (rare) tea explorer/buyer. She goes around the world looking for the best tea-growing estates.
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- This chocolate drink brews like coffee and is tasty.
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- I’ve tried 2 of these 3 Swiss Cheeses so far and both are quite good. No, they don’t have holes.
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- These 3 items form the show went well together.
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- Cheeses of France: A variety of options.
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- Cheeses of France event: These flavored goat cheeses were very good.
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- Humboldt Fog is one of my favorite cheeses.
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- Jinro of S. Korea had a variety of alcoholic beverages including Soju, raspberry wine, and plum wine.
There were an incredible number of great products at this year’s Summer DC Fancy Food Show, and there is no way to cover every product I enjoyed, so I will show some of the highlights in the above photo gallery as well as list some of our favorite products below.
Some of the great products we tried included Chimes mango flavored ginger chews, Chewy’s chocolate rugaleh (their website is down), Happy Goat‘s chocolate and sea salt caramels, Belfine‘s (Belgian) espresso chocolate, Dancing Deer‘s brownies, Fairytale Brownies‘ Belgian chocolate cheesecake brownie, Walker’s Shortbread (we tried the lemon and the oat), Emmi‘s cheeses (Switzerland), Nueva Cocina’s coconut raisin rice (I haven’t tried the brown rice version yet), Tortuga‘s chocolate rum cakes, chocolate rum turtles, and Jamaica blue mountain coffee, and Rigoni De Asiago‘s Fiordfrutta wild blueberry fruit spread fig spread, nocciolata (hazelnut and chocolate spread) and Italian forest honey. organic, all. Numi Organic Tea‘s Pu-Erh (what they actually call black teas in china–what we call black tea they call red tea) is my new breakfast drink. They taste great and are supposed to have healing/weight loss properties–I prefer the chocolate, emperor, and cardamom over the jasmine, basil-mint, or coconut varieties. (Yes, Pu-Ehr has more caffeine than green or what we call black tea.)
Events related to the show which I attended included a introduction to Korean food class, Cheeses of France event, a Taza Chocolate event at Oyamel, and Rare Tea Republic‘s rare tea tasting. The Korean class was interesting because it was more of a tasting of flavors than food and they told you the exact order in which to try things (put this on your tongue and then drink that) . Oyamel made a nice dessert with Taza’s chocolate. The French cheese event included some great French cheeses. The rare tea tasting was awesome because the tea buyer could explain in detail about the teas and the estates.
-JAY
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