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San Francisco Ritrovo Style
This August, we were fortunate to visit San Francisco, check in with some of our customers and supporters, and take part in a Farmer’s Market cooking class at Tante Marie’s Cooking School. It is one of Ritrovo’s missions, as well as one of our very favorite practices, to experiment with local vegetables, meat/poultry/fish, and grains [...]
Read More..>>Celebrating Our Success One Delicious Bite at a Time
Ah, the sweet taste of success! Earlier this month, Ron and Catie returned from NYC with our fourth NASFT sofiTM Gold statue.(For those who don’t know, the sofiTM gold statue is the specialty food industry’s equivalent to Hollywood’s Oscar®.) RITROVO® SELECTIONSTM Mt. Townsend Truffle & Salt Seastack Cheese represents our first gold win for a [...]
Read More..>>Authentic Italian Food, Truly RITROVO® Style
Though we at RITROVO® have brought many shipments of regional artisan foods from Italy to the United States over the last decade, our most recent shipment has been special. With the arrival of the June 2010 shipment, RITROVO®’ celebrated 11 successful years of guiding small-scale Italian farmers and organic producers to the U.S. market — [...]
Read More..>>More Farro-philia, Courtesy Lentz Farms
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Read More..>>So much farro, so little time
We recently started importing a new couscous made in Italy from farro. Farro is a resurgent yet heirloom grain common in the Mediterranean, favored for its high protein, mineral, and fiber content. It contains 8-19 percent of daily protein and 14% of daily fiber. Recently, one of our most attentive customers, Gail Murphy of Minglement [...]
Read More..>>Authentic Italian Coming Up!
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Read More..>>More Cheese Festival 2010
A CHEESY YEAR
In preparing for our continued participation at the SEATTLE CHEESE FESTIVAL 2010, held May 15-16 in the Pike Place Market, we are reminded that it’s been a cheesy year at RITROVO. To begin with, the standard visitor-exhibitor exchange that will take place over-and-over again, at the RITROVO ITALIAN REGIONAL FOODS stand at the festival will [...]
Read More..>>FULL CIRCLE
One of the ways we first got into a deeper appreciation of food in Italy—years before Ritrovo—was through shopping at our local farmer’s market at Piazza Alberone in Rome. The daily beckoning of fresh produce from the Roman countryside and the rest of Italy was a constant food inspiration. In winter there was the charred [...]
Read More..>>Tender Transitions
Ah, the sensations of spring’s arrival in the Pacific northwest… blossom-speckled breezes, sun-warmed smiles, and tender bites of pastel-green, local produce. But until the passing of Easter, these sensations are capricious and teasing. It’s not quite time to drag out the grill and brush aside the residue of last year’s festivities in favor of this [...]
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