Archive for the 'Grains, Legumes, and Nuts' Category
Sweet Partners
It is mid-May at RITROVO®, with the promise of spring juxtaposed against the grind of the usual small business demands like adjusting seasonal product lineups and Tutto Food in Italy. Some days it seems like a grind, but then an ebullient chef like Chef Walter Pisano of Tulio in Seattle will phone up and order [...]
Read More..>>Springtime with Fresh Asparagus
Spring is in the air and with it the first of our spring produce – fresh local asparagus – to be eaten as much and in as many ways as possible. Here in the Pacific Northwest, this veggie is a harbinger of longer sunnier days and gorgeous seasonal meals ahead. To celebrate this beautiful season [...]
Read More..>>Chocofest – February 10, 2013
Guest Post by Glenn Greenwood, RITROVO® staff member The Sunday before Valentine’s Day was an unseasonably warm and pleasant February evening, with the sun setting and a cool breeze sailing across the Puget Sound waters. In this romantic setting we contemplated Seattle’s beautiful and bustling Pike Place Market. Along with seventy or so purveyors of [...]
Read More..>>Winter Fancy Food Show 2013
With the Winter Fancy Food Show almost a month behind us, we are gratefully reflecting on its successes and highlights. First there were our new products: Our new BEVIVO™ Bianco, a light and lemony partner to BEVIVO™ Rosso, was served up by consultant Chef Jason Rice. Kent Miller of Miller Farms helped us debut our [...]
Read More..>>A New Year!
2013 – it is a new year with a new chance to look at daily life in a fresh way. For many of us, this includes taking a step back from the sweets and treats of the holiday season and looking to renew healthy food choices. RITROVO® has a few year-opening light food suggestions from [...]
Read More..>>12 Flavors, 12 memories for Christmas
Tis the season, and this week we eagerly and mouth-wateringly composed our RITROVO® Holiday Party menu with Chef Michael Easton of the newly relocated Il Corvo in Seattle. We wanted to honor our staff and supporters with a very special gathering around the RITROVO® table. We have entrusted this auspicious event to Chef Michael in [...]
Read More..>>Thanksgiving Day 2012
After some very hectic weeks of product coming and going here at RITROVO®, an amazing season of good friends, good food, and good times ritrovati has begun. We are so thankful to all our suppliers, supporters, customers and comrades who make our work so dynamic and rewarding. In thanks to all of you we are [...]
Read More..>>Creative Collaborating
We at RITROVO® love to collaborate not only with our suppliers but also with customers and food personalities. In a few days we will debut a collaboration that came out of an upbeat brainstorm at the Summer Fancy Food Show. Though truffle and cornbread season seemed far away during those hot early summer days, they [...]
Read More..>>This Lunch is a Landscape
It is harvest time in Italy with loads of grapes and the first olives coming in, abundant fennel bulbs and greens, the last of the late-ripening tomatoes, and the first of the romesco cauliflowers. The aromas in the air are of small chaff-burning bonfires, beginning fermentations, and the last dry-ripening peppers and other late vegetables [...]
Read More..>>Fancy Food Show Summer 2012
When Karen Keegan of Savor the Flavor in California commented at the end of our ten minute Saturday buyer’s meeting at the 2012 Summer Fancy Food Show in Washington, D.C., “I wish we had more time together, I’d love to see more of your products.” and delighted in our Tavolozze al Tartufo Crackers, it felt [...]
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