Thursday, 19 May 2011

Gilt Taste And Mikuni Wild!

Gilt Groupe, of the eponymous and hugely popular sale site, just launched their online magazine slash food market, Gilt Taste. Combining a focus on bringing sustainable, artisan products to a wide audience with the writing of a range of bloggers, chefs, and food writers, Gilt Taste (with Ruth Reichl at the helm and Frances Lam as features editor) is aiming to create a new kind of online magazine - one with no ads. We're happy to report that Mikuni is one of Gilt Taste's suppliers, bringing our Noble Tonics, truffle products, and ubiquitous wild foraged mushrooms and such to the retail market.
Right now,  Mikuni is supplying seasonally-appropriate ramps and fiddleheads, along with the Chef's Blend Mushroom Mix and a relative newcomer, Vidal Ice Syrups.




A nonalcoholic relative of ice wine, these ice syrups are made from the same frozen-and-thawed, super-concentrated grapes. They share the same sweet-tart, complex flavor – perfect for desserts, as a glaze for pork, or even on pancakes.

Stand by for many more new and exciting collaborations & offerings with Gilt Taste!

Tuesday, 10 May 2011

Kata Robata Features Noble Tonics at StarChefs Dinner

Kata Robata chefs Manabu "Hori" Horiuchi and Seth Siegel-Gardner were recently visited by StarChefs as they were honored as 2011 Houston Rising Stars.  The menu they prepared for StarChefs incorporated several of the Noble Tonics.  These stunning pictures below were taken by the guys and gals over at StarChefs and then passed along to me by Chef Seth.
  

"Oaxcan Flip" with Tonic 02
















"Dried Short-Ribs" with Tonic 04 Vinaigrette
















"Aerated Chocolate Namelaka" with Tonic 02

"Foie Gras and Unagi Terrine" with Tonic 05