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WILDLY DELICIOUS FINE FOODS
Beet & Red Onion Marmalade
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AFTER 18 YEARS IN THE SPECIALTY FOOD BUSINESS, Canada's Wildly
Delicious Fine Foods has developed hundreds of products. But none has
been as challenging as its new Beet & Onion Marmalade.
The team struggled to get the formula right, says Austin Muscat, the
company's COO. The savory marmalade contains just six ingredients: beets,
red onion, red wine vinegar, sugar, pectin and citric acids. It was the primary
component that vexed the developers.
In the earlier version, "we lost the color," Muscat explains. "We needed shorter cooking
times to get the big, beautiful, perfectly red color we wanted." And beets are very messy,
he notes. "We go through a lot of uniforms. It stains everything in sight."
Part of the Pure & Simple line, the Beet & Onion Marmalade was conceived as a
component for charcuterie plates, but it works just as well as a tenderloin glaze or a
condiment for burgers and sausages.
And despite the early setbacks, Muscat says it is exactly that kind of "little-used,
holistic, non-conventional ingredient" that inspires his team's creativity. "We like to find an
ingredient and give it a new purpose," he says. Suggested retail price: $5.50–$6/9.8 ounces.
Contact: Austin Muscat, Wildly Delicious Fine Foods; 416.444.2011; austin@wildlydelicious.
com; wildlydelicious.com.—C.C.
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Contact: Sharon Chittick
425.881.7771
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Eulogia Organic Greek Fir
Honey—Limited Edition
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646.926.0206
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Creamed Honey
with Hibiscus
Contact: Laura Tapp
919.942.2006;
919.699.6788
laura@vintagebee.com
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