Fancy Food & Culinary Products

One of Foodie Public Relations clients, The Scrumptious Pantry, is featured as Fancy Food & Culinary Products' pick of the week. Read more @ http://fancyfoodmagazine.blogspot.com!

Happy Eating! Mr. Foodie

Media Blitz

The Scrumptious Pantry is being introduced to the Chicago media this week -- Chicago Sun-Times, Inside Publications and Fancy Food magazine.

So far all food editors are impressed with the company's product and its commitment to only source from small artisan producers, whenever possible right at the source of the primary ingredient – the family farmer. The artisans of The Scrumptious Pantry are dedicated to natural foodmaking. In most cases, the products are organically grown and prepared. Each artisan does not believe in artificial flavors, conserving agents or other artificial ingredients interfering with their work. All products are 100% natural.

If you want to learn more about The Scrumptious Pantry or its founder, Lee Greene, e-mail me at robbenes@comcast.net.

Happy Eating! Mr. Foodie

The Scrumptious Pantry - Press Release

Real Food From Real People
The Scrumptious Pantry offers handcrafted food from the heartlands of Italy


THE SCRUMPTIOUS PANTRY is dedicated to improving the quality of food put on consumers’ plates! It represents 21 very special food items from Tuscany, Piemonte and Emilia-Romagna, Italy that are sourced from family farms and artisan producers that cannot be found in the United States.

Items include Durum Wheat Pasta, Risotto Rice, Cornmeal, Tomato Jam with Grappa, Green Tomato Jam, Tuscan Red Onion Chutney, Sun-Dried Tomato Spread, Eggplant Spread, All-Purpose Herbed Salt (Roasting & Grilling Salt), Balsamic Dressing Sauce, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, Cantucci Tuscan Almond Cookies, Brutti Ma Buoni Italian Hazelnut Cookies and more.

All 21 items are carefully made in small-batches without the use of artificial flavors, conserving agents or other artificial ingredients. They are lovingly produced by farmers in the field and artisans in the kitchen, respecting local traditions and tastes, harvesting only the best crops and using the finest ingredients to create food that touches your soul. So what is made is real food from real people!

It’s Roberta and Guilio who tend to their eggplants and tomatoes and captures Tuscany’s sunny fields in their vegetable spreads and herbs. It’s Carlo who grows durum wheat that goes into his conchiglie, farfalle and rigatoni pastas. It’s Barbara and Fabio who transforms their tomato and onion crops into tantalizing spreads, chutneys and jellies.

Founded by Lee Greene in 2008, THE SCRUMPTIOUS PANTRY is an umbrella brand that guides consumers in identifying artisan food products. Each product is uniquely packaged proudly picturing the actual producer on the label.

“Consumers have been embracing the concept of ‘From Farm To Table’. They want to know where their food is grown and what is in it,” Greene says. “THE SCRUMPTIOUS PANTRY raises this concept to the next level of packaged goods because so far it has been limited to fresh produce – farmers’ markets and Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). Plus, having been a farmer myself, I know that it’s so much more fulfilling for the producer if the fruit of their labor is appreciated as being real food.”

THE SCRUMPITOUS PANTRY and the artisans it works with invites you to join them in their commitment to the return of good taste and safe food, believing that success comes from a willingness to provide the best-tasting and freshest products that can be grown and found.

About The Scrumptious Pantry
THE SCRUMPTIOUS PANTRY, founded by Lee Greene in 2008, represents a line of 21 food items from the heartlands of Italy. Focused on direct collaboration with independent specialty food stores and delicatessens, THE SCRUMPTIOUS PANTRY is available throughout the United States. For a complete listing of where to buy items, visit www.scrumptiouspantry.com. THE SCRUMPTIOUS PANTRY is the artisan specialty food line of Rye, N.Y.-based Faithful to Foods, Inc. Greene also is the General Manager of Tenuta di Poggio, a boutique vineyard located in Tuscany.

The Scrumptious Pantry

Foodie Public Relations is the agent of record for The Scrumptious Pantry's (TSP) media relations. The Scrumptious Pantry presents foods from the culinary heartlands of Italy.


Direct all media inquiries to Foodie Public Relations at 630.913.6289 or robbenes@comcast.net.

Visit www.scrumptiouspantry.com to learn more about The Scrumptious Pantry.

Happy Eating! Mr. Foodie

Lemonade and Chocolate Cookies

Who could resist homemade lemonade from freshly squeezed lemons and freshly baked chocolate chip cookies from these two cute girls?

Happy Eating! Mr. Foodie

Offal is so Good!

I went to a pig roast on Saturday hosted by The Pathetic Suburban Males' Grilling Club. The pig was great, which was stuffed with two roasting chickens. Here's a few pictures of the pig and me enjoying freshly cooked pig brains.

The brains tasted and had a mouthfeel of sea urchin. Don't knock it until you try it ... I highly recommend it.

Homemade poppers also were offered made from homegrown peppers and stuffed with cream cheese and bacon; as well as homemade corn bread with Mexican four-cheese and roasted jalapeno.








Happy Eating! Mr. Foodie

Charlie Trotter's 22nd Anniversary Celebration

I attended Charlie Trotter's 22nd anniversary celebration - somewhat as a VIP guest. I was a backstage pass to kitchen before, during and after the dinner, and I have tell you this is not the first time Charlie has allowed me this opportunity.

For this dinner, Chef Juan Mari Arzak of Restaurante Arzak of San Sabastian (Spain), Chef Michael Carlson of Schwa (Chicago), Chef Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park (New York), Chef Paul Liebrandt of Corton (New York), Farmer/Chef Lee Jones of The Chef's Garden (Ohio) joined Charlie in preparing a nine course dinner. Furthermore, there were four master sommeliers in the restaurant that evening: Larry Stone, Serafin Alvarado, Robert Houde, Conrad Reddick.

All of the proceeds from the evening (there were about 110 guest who paid $450/plate) went toward Charlie Trotter's Educational Foundation.

Here are a few of the the goings-on in Charlie Trotter's kitchen. It was a great evening.

Happy Eating! Mr. Foodie