• 03Jul

    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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