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Foodbuzz Festival Part 2: Tasting Pavillion

November 10, 2011 by Jennifer Che 7 Comments


This is part II of an extended post about Foodbuzz Festival 2011.

I’ve been going to the Foodbuzz Festival since its inception in 2009. The Tasting Pavilion has always been the focus of Saturday afternoon and is a super fun part of the festival. You basically walk around this huge room at the top of the Metreon and sample all sorts of delicious food from an wide assortment of vendors.
Tasting Pavillion
This year, for the first time, they allowed us to bring a guest! I was so excited to finally be able to bring one of my best friends from college, who has graciously hosted me the last several years whenever I visit San Francisco.

There’s no way I could describe every single thing I tried or saw in those three (!) hours of sampling. However, here are some that stood out to me.
Clover yogurt, Brown Cow
This actually isn’t part of the Tasting Pavillion (they were serving it for breakfast during the workshops). However, I liked the Clover Yogurt that I tried so much that I had to include it in this line up. Have you ever had cream on top yogurt? Oh man . . . sooo good. I’m a purist when it comes to yogurt (no fruit please), so I actually enjoyed it by just eating it plain.
TCHO chocolate
TCHO chocolates are also local to California (they claim to be San Francisco’s only artisanal chocolate maker). We tried several flavors (Plain, “Fruity”, “Serious Milk”, etc), which were all excellent.
Frog Hollow Pears
These pears from Frog Hollow Farms were really, really good! Sweet, crispy, excellent flavor . .  I can imagine that they would pair super well with cheese.
endive
We learned so much about how Belgian endives grow. Did you know they do not exist in nature? Belgian endives come from the chicory root, and only “bloom” as these young, tender, white leaves when they are left in the dark. Otherwise, chicory root usually grows tougher, green leaves.
Nuts with Indian Spices
Fantastic artisanally flavored nuts from Oren’s Kitchen – these cashews, made with an interesting Indian spice, were my favorite.
Alexia cheese cups
Alexia, who sponsored large portions of the conference, had cooking demonstrations for how to use their frozen products. Here they have a beautiful cheese crisp that you can fill with many types of products.grassfed beef
Grass fed beef tastes delicious and is better for you too! This beef was fantastic – perfectly medium rare and quite juicy.
Alaskan Cod
There was quite a bit of Alaskan seafood, including cod potato cakes (yum!) and crab and avocado salad.

We tried the most delicious butter cookies made with Wineforest’s candy cap sugar. It’s odd to think that a dried mushroom would work so well in a cookie, but these cookies were fabulous.Fig and the Girl
I totally fell in love with the fig and cherry jam from The Girl and the Fig. I came back from several “seconds” because it tasted so good with just a cracker and some cheese.

I was curious about kefir and finally had a chance to try it. It tastes like liquid yogurt, except that (according to the vendor) this particular version has many more probiotic live and active cultures – ten different kinds, to be exact.

It was a fun, fun tasting and I definitely wanted to check out some of these products once I got home. Funny thing is, while hanging out at SFO, I stumbled upon a cute little market inside the terminal at American Airlines. Lo and behold, the store was just like the Tasting Pavilion!  I saw The Girl and the Fig jam, Tyler Florence products, 479 popcorn, TCHO chocolate, and jams from Frog Hollow Farms!

I guess you don’t even have to leave the airport to enjoy a bit of some of the best artisanal products that San Francisco has to offer!

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Comments

  1. Elina (Healthy and Sane) says

    November 11, 2011 at 4:24 pm

    Oh yeah, the tasting pavilion was definitely one of the highlights for me last year. I think Stonyfield has cream on top yogurt. I seem to recall that’s what Gary Hirshberg said was his favorite…

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  2. Ella says

    November 11, 2011 at 6:45 pm

    This made me so hungry!  Looks great.

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  3. scrapper al says

    November 12, 2011 at 12:39 am

    Everything looks so yummy! And so interesting about the Belgian endive.

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  4. quadlink says

    November 14, 2011 at 2:41 am

    Thanks for letting me tag along! And thanks for letting my hand make a cameo appearance 🙂

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  5. slin says

    November 16, 2011 at 4:22 pm

    Yeah, I’ve seen cream on top of the whole milk stonyfield yogurt. I really like whole milk yogurt but most of the time, the supermarkets only stock the nonfat kind!

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  6. 502822948 says

    January 13, 2012 at 11:05 pm

    有名な潮流ブランドアディダスoriginalsは今年native ネイティブ秋に打ち出されたarchivmiumiu 新作 バッグe packをつけていて、二足kopenhagenシューズと、靴の甲を采用uggアグ ブーツ し、高品质の紐

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  7. Mack Shepperson says

    January 17, 2012 at 5:43 pm

    Wow, those are mouthwatering photos! I want to try those cookies that are made from dried mushroom and grass fed beef. They look absolutely yummy! I wonder if I can buy any of those cookies in our area. 🙂

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