We are trying to figure out what companies would be of most interest to you here on ChefTalk. So, with that in mind who are your favorite companies related to food and cooking (kitchen equipment, food companies, kitchen clothing, etc). We are not talking about forums/websites - simply companies that make/sell products and services.
Sur La Table as a walk in store, always excellent selection
Williams Sonoma with some reservation, they stock too many $2000 coffee makers and such and not enough in real world tools.
Crate & Barrel with even more reservations, but some of their small item binds have interesting things stocked
Farmer's Market - any one, anywhere actually.
Whole Food for excellent quality food and also some gadgets here and there
Safeway for every day shopping, quality is always pretty good
CostCo for bulk, for prime beef, whole fish fillets, deli meats
D'Artagnan for the occasional treat I can't find locally
Shun knives
Butcherpacker.com for butcher/charcutery items
All-Clad pots and pans
Concentrated stocks by More Than Gourmet
Old Bay
Aroy-D coconut milk
Hand Brand Thai curry paste (as yet have only tried the red and Panang)
Barkeeper's Friend
E-Cloth (polishing cloth)
Oven Pride oven cleaner
Maldon Sea Salt
Guinness (pulled, not canned!)
Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce
We are trying to figure out what companies would be of most interest to you here on ChefTalk. So, with that in mind who are your favorite companies related to food and cooking (kitchen equipment, food companies, kitchen clothing, etc). We are not talking about forums/websites - simply companies that make/sell products and services.
Their produce department always looks ready for a photo shoot and is always filled with local produce any time it's available.
Same thing goes for seafood. They can tell me when any specific type of fish is coming in, so I can stop down and pick it up in a cooler and bring it home for sushi.
Cargill meat
Sysco grocery full service and frozen
Tyson chicken
Breakbush poultry and new poultry products
Nestle new product inovation and marketing
Edward Don Corp heavy equipment and smallwares
Mc Donalds for systems and control of product & teaching everyone consistancy
and last but not least WALMART who taught all of the other large and small companies how to do business in this day and age.
I thank them all because I have learned from all of them
Nugget grocery stores are awesome. Based out of Woodland Ca. with i think 4-6 stores. great place.
kitchen aid
hobart
Henkels
Mac
Coffee Pot Ranch
Five Dot Ranch
and to all those hole in the wall carnicerias and asian food stores rock on.
King Arthur Flour (I live right near their store)
LeCreuset (highly recommend their new triply cookware)
KitchenAid
Jessica's Biscuit (cookbooks)
Frangelico ;>)
Henkels
Crate and Barrel
All-Clad
Ghirardelli
Will it come as much of a surprise if I mention...
Solex Partners - Authentic foods from Spain
Heritage or Heirloom pork farms (one of the bigger ones...there seems to be a growing number of them popping up)
A representative from Chicago's Green City Market
Cypress Grove Chevre
How about someone to talk about great Balsamics (San Giacomo (ish)) or someone to talk about superior fresh olive oils. (have you ever gone to The City Olive, in Chicago? I believe the owners name is Karen, extremely helpful. Maybe one of the Olive Orchards in California or ???
A representative on Heirloom vegetables (perhaps KYH can give a recommendation)
All-Clad
How about one of the recipe organizers like MasterCook
I do a lot of cooking and entertaining at home.
These guys carry a lot of the cookware I need.
The kitchen essentials stuff is where I find a lot of my stuff.
Does this have to do with advertisers? These are not fancy, but they are frequently used items in cooking and the producers sell cookbooks trying to get people to cook with them more often.
Dannon and Stonyfield Farms yogurt
Hershey's cocoa
Quaker oats
Splenda
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