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Item of the Day: Vegan Cream Cheese

By | Cheese, Chef's Feed, Item of the Day, Non-GMO, Vegan, What Chefs Want

Vegan Cream Cheese

Go Veggie plain cream cheese is anything but plain. Go Veggie Vegan Classic Plain Cream Cheese is the most award-winning, dairy-free spread around. It’s rich, creamy and spreadably smooth. Whip up frosting for red velvet cupcakes, slather it on Sunday bagels or stuff it into french toast.

Now Non-GMO Project Verified

Made with healthy coconut

.25% less saturated fat

No cholesterol, lactose or gluten

Item 10699 – 4 lb. tub

Item 04073 – 4/4 lb. case

Coromandel Oysters are here!

By | Chef's Feed, Oysters, Seafood, What Chefs Want

Coromandel Oysters

The Pacific oyster comes from the Ostreidae family (oysters). These oysters have an off-white shell with yellow and brownie bands, the flesh is light colored and has a black mantle around the edge.

It is believed that the Pacific oyster was accidentally introduced to New Zealand, possibly coming in on the haul of a ship. Commercial farming started in 1970’s with most of the farmed pacific oysters grown either on sticks, trays or netting bags on intertidal oyster farms.

Oyster racks are built so the oyster sits just above the water level at the low tide and about 3-6 feet below the water at the high tide. Oysters that are grown in this manner have a slower growth rate but the shells and adductor muscles are stronger which provides a live oyster with a better shelf life.

Sea Products (our oyster supplier) source their spat from the wild and it’s typically ‘caught’ during the summer months. Spat are caught by leaving 3 feet long wooden sticks in the water that oyster larvae will settle on and attach themselves to.
Once the spat are caught, it takes 12-20 months on an intertidal farm for the Pacific oysters to grow big enough to sell.

Once the spat has started to grow, roughly 4 moths the wooden sticks are stripped of the small oysters and on-grown in mesh bags, trays or baskets. The latter method is called ‘single culture’ as the oysters are not attached to each other or to a stick.
Feed is not added at any stage in the farming of Pacific oysters. As oysters are filter feeders, they filter natural plankton (small free-floating plants and animals) out of the water column.

Only oyster from growing areas with clear sanitation status and where there is no evidence of biotoxin accumulation is considered for harvest.

The salinity levels of the pure New Zealand coastal waters in which oysters are grown are some of the highest salinity levels found throughout the world, this makes the New Zealand Pacific Oyster one of the best and safest oyster to consume.

Type:Crassostrea Gigas
Harvest Location:Coromandel Peninsula New Zealand
Flavor Profile:‘Coromandels’ are a medium-sized oyster with a deep cup. The oyster has a buttery flavor and rich briny liquor, with slight cucumber and watermelon finish.
Size:3.5″
Pack Size:60 count

Item 48870 – 60 count box

Item of the Day: Bourbon Smoked Salt

By | Chef's Feed, Gourmet, Item of the Day, Products, What Chefs Want

Bourbon Smoked Sea Salt

Bourbon Barrel Foods has combined all natural, solar-evaporated sea salt with the rich aromas of Kentucky’s finest aged bourbons.


Producer Bio: A maker of gourmet food products, Bourbon Barrel Foods provides quality sauces and seasonings using its three-word philosophy: slow, small, simple. These products are locally sourced and reflect the rich heritage of Kentucky’s Bourbon Country.

Item 96002 – 18 oz. jar

Item 96026 – 6/18 oz. case

Item 96003 – 5 oz. tin

Item of the Day: French Banyuls Vinegar

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French Banyuls Vinegar

This spectacular French Banyuls vinegar is aged in oak casks for 4 years, and then matured in barrels for 12 months. The subtle sweetness of Banyuls Wine Vinegar, combined with powerful and rich aromas of walnut, gingerbread, beeswax, vanilla and licorice will add an incomparable character to your recipes.

Item 98930 – 6/17 oz. case

Item 97311 – 17 oz. bottle