Dairy processors are adding spicy peppers, herbs and other botanical ingredients to dairy foods. What’s going on? Our panel says consumers’ desire for more flavor, more stimulation and more experience is behind the trend.
If there’s a universal truth we can all count on, it’s that America’s three favorite ice-cream flavors will always be vanilla, chocolate and strawberry. Right? Wrong. Per the International Dairy Foods Association, Washington, D.C., our top three picks last year were vanilla, chocolate and butter pecan.
Seven years ago Tim and Roy Koons-McGee opened up one ice cream parlor in Louisville, Ky. This year they are on pace to have 11 scoop shops and 300 grocery stores carrying pints of their super-premium ice cream.
The new spring Hibiscus Rhubarb Pie kefir flavor features a Rowley-designed label
May 3, 2016
Lifeway partnered with designer Cynthia Rowley to introduce a limited-edition Hibiscus Rhubarb Pie kefir flavor for spring and a bottle designed by Rowley.
The advantages of manufacturing extended shelf life milks include increased plant efficiency, reduced distribution costs and reduced product returns.
April 15, 2016
If Frank Otis could add four to five days more shelf life to his organic milk, it would mean a world of difference. The CEO of Crystal Creamery, Modesto, Calif., said he could then service accounts in Los Angeles, 300 miles to the south.
Standard Market received two awards from the American Cheese Society for a LaClare Farms Chandoka aged in its cave.
April 14, 2016
Cave-aging cheese adds value. But when a cheesemaker doesn’t have the space or the time to age its own cheese, it turns to an outside service. Meet Standard Market of Westmont, Ill.