Archive for the 'Cookies, Chocolates, and other Sweets' 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..>>BEVIVO™ Rosso and Bianco: Sparkler, Spritzer, Martini, and Manhattan recipes
Defined as a drinking balsamic, RITROVO SELECTIONS™ BEVIVO™ is the first drink of its type and has been enthusiastically received by the specialty food industry and recognized by food media nationwide and by NASFT as “on trend”. • Featured in the April 2013 Food & Wine Magazine “Italian Pantry Picks”. • BEVIVO™ Rosso was recognized [...]
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..>>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..>>CINQUE DI MAYO
We are just back from a short vacation in Puerto Rico where we enjoyed a few relaxing days of sun in the tropics before a busy season of Seattle Cheese Festival, the Summer Fancy Food Show, and the usual RITROVO intense work schedule. In spite of our occasional cravings for a pour of Trampetti Extra [...]
Read More..>>Ritrovo Recipes for Easter
Happy Easter from the Delaurentiis family of Casina Rossa On Easter morning, a fresh-baked sweet seemed to be in keeping with a Ritrovo foodstyle. Fresh baked goods remind us of all the simple yet flavorful baked goods that are so much a part of Easter in Italy. There are the sweet colombe–light risen dough [...]
Read More..>>Fancy Food Show 2012 RITROVO® Highlights
In Italy Ferragosto is the mid-August holiday where people return to their village of birth or travel to some vacation site to gather with all their closest friends. There they share good food, good company, and good times. For RITROVO®, the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Francisco is a bit like a “Ferr-Gennaio”, [...]
Read More..>>42 New RITROVO SELECTIONS™ for 2012
Happy New Year 2012! At RITROVO® we will be celebrating well into the New Year having brought to you 42 New RITROVO SELECTIONS™ for 2012. These selections include products in each of our 10 product lines and feature 5 new RITROVO® producers: L’Ultimo Forno – Artisan Baked Goods from Basilicata Madonna Dell’Olivo – extra virgin [...]
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