Archive for the 'Cheese' Category
The Perfect Summer Feast
It’s so easy in summertime to put together a fabulous meal to share with friends. The produce is green and abundant and it barely needs to be touched to put together a lavish, seasonal meal. The days are long and warm, so food can be served more slowly than usual, outdoors or in, with no [...]
Read More..>>Asparagus Lust Summer 2012
When asparagus season is peaking in Washington there are not enough meals, not enough appetizers, not enough pasta dishes or salads to savor this quintessential local, summery, seasonal vegetable. Snapping off their toughened lower stems and getting ready to roast them in extra virgin olive oil, or peeling their lanky stalks to toss with vinaigrette [...]
Read More..>>Spirito di Squadra
In Italy, we always have been impressed when attending sagre or local food festivals by the coordination and group effort that pull together these astounding communal events. Teams of friends or neighbors cook and serve hundreds of portions of hot polenta, or platter after platter of porchetta, or pour cup after cup of local rustic [...]
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 [...]
Read More..>>Treviso is an unexpected town
Even after almost two decades of studying and exploring Italy’s delightful culinary diversity, we still expect the unexpected. Be it a locally-or regionally-based dish, the cultural or historical background for it, or the particular means of preparing it, we always find ourselves eagerly anticipating our next ‘rediscovery’. We were rewarded in November of this year [...]
Read More..>>You Have to Love Your Job
We are truly grateful for the good fortune that has brought RITROVO® to this moment. It has been nearly twenty years since our beginnings, yet even now, we are passion–driven. We love what we do. In large part, we owe this to our producers – soulful, proud food artisans with whom we work closely to [...]
Read More..>>Sizzling in DC
Outside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington D.C. summer was coming on, full-on, with combined temperatures exceeding 120 degrees. Inside the center things were heating up as well, thanks to visitor response to new RITROVO SELECTIONS™ Introduced at the SUMMER 2011 FANCY FOOD SHOW. We had been anticipating a warm reception. According to the [...]
Read More..>>Blue Breadcrumbs
The long rays and long days of summer have gone for this year, and with them the easy salads, vegetables on the grill, and raw salsas and gazpachos. A protracted season of kales and cauliflowers, cooked in various ways, awaits us vegetable lovers. In Italy, there always [...]
Read More..>>Last Tastes of Summer
This weekend we are cooking with some of the last trickles of summer produce: ripe cherry and whole tomatoes, beautiful fresh, leafy greens, and the final trickles of late-ripening berries. We are grateful for a summer of veggies delivered to our back doorstep by our friends at Full Circle Farm, who have been offering local [...]
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 SELECTIONS™ Mt. Townsend Truffle & Salt Seastack Cheese represents our first gold win for a [...]
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