Archive for the 'Salt and Spices' 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..>>Greetings from California
For RITROVO® this is a year for strengthening partnerships: from NY to Salt Lake to LA, we are working to promote and distribute our regional imports with local friends who can spread the RITROVO® message. For that reason we delightedly arrived in southern California to meet up with our distributor Gourmet Food Solutions. Together we [...]
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..>>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..>>Melon and Calamari Ceviche
With Summer’s end now a week closer (in spite of the hot temperatures) we are soaking up every last ray of sunlight and lingering outdoors until we are forced to grab our fall jackets and finally head inside. So I look at the gorgeous sun-ripened sweet melons that have arrived at our Farmer’s Market from [...]
Read More..>>End of Summer Feast
Here in the Pacific Northwest, the intense long rays of summer are giving way to a more slanting, slightly subdued hue of sunlight, hinting that not long from now fall will be upon us. But we didn’t want all of summer to pass us by without a trip to see friends and customers up in [...]
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