Medlee Foods, Chicago, added five sweet whipped butter spreads. The spreads build on the company's original line of seasoned, savory butter spreads, which are intended to be used during cooking.
Good old high-fat, high-calorie butter is starring on restaurant menus and at home. Foodies appreciate butter’s qualities in baking and in adding taste to home cooking.
Nobody puts butter in a corner. Not anymore. Long shunted to the dietary sidelines because of its saturated-fat content and high caloric value, butter is undergoing a renaissance. You can thank fine-dining (see related article) and a renewed interest in cooking at home for that.
Grassland Dairy, Greenwood, Wis., offers organic butter for the foodservice industry and for retail. The butter comes in cases of 18 one-pound unsalted solids and 25 kilograms of salted and unsalted bulk. It is QAI-certified organic and kosher-certified. The suggested retail price is $2 to $3 per pound.
Butter prices dipped under the $1.40 level; cheese production is robust and fluid milk processors are operating plants on extended schedules, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.