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Blog from Helena Lockey December 2014

Gelato Petrini, Delray, Florida Ingredients

Delray, Fla.–Gelato Petrini makes gelato with Florida sourced ingredients. This family run business, since 1957, makes small artisans batches of over 800 flavors of frozen goodness in three different ways. They work closely with local producers, farmers and culinary artisans. I interviewed the family at the 18th Americas Food and Beverage Show in Miami Beach Convention Center earlier this year.

Koby Cohen, Jim Cohen, Kassi Lowenstein of Gelato Petrini, 18th Americas Food & Beverage Show, Miami, Fla. Copyright 2014 by Helen A Lockey

They are an authentic Italian gelato manufacturing company that caters to the food industry.

“We like working with local chefs that have an idea but don’t have the time to create it,” said Kassie Lowenstein.

According to Koby Cohen, Chief Operating Officer of Gelato Petrini, they use Florida milk, Florida sugar, and Florida fruit in their frozen products that include Gelato, Gelato made with soy milk (certified organic and GMO-Free), and Sorbet (made with or without alcohol). Cohen said, “All our alcohol is kosher.”

They will be featured at the 2014-2015 growing season farm-to-table dinners at Swank Table in Loxahatchee, Fla.

You can buy their retail products at several South Florida Fresh Markets, and at some Winn Dixie stores.

To find out more about wholesale services and products of Gelato Petrini check out their webpage at www.gelatopetrini.com

For more information, contact Dawn Petrini 561-716-0389 or dawn@gelatopetrini.com

Press Release Gelato Petrini Kosherfest 2013

One of my favorite gelato flavors, Key Lime Pie, holds a special place in my heart. Maybe because its just downright AWESOME or maybe its because I’m from Florida.  What is the connection between Florida and Key Lime Pie?

The origin of key lime pie can be traced back to the late 19th century in the Key West, Florida area.  The first formal mention of Key lime pie as a recipe may have been made by William Curry, a ship salvager and Key West’s first millionaire; his cook, “Aunt Sally”, made the pie for him. It is likely that Aunt Sally adapted the recipe  from one created by local sponge fishermen. As Sponge fishermen spent  days on their boats, they had to store nutritional food that wouldn’t spoil easily on their boats including basics such as canned milk, limes and eggs. With no ovens on the sponge boats, the original Key Lime Pie was actually mixed and consumed without cooking. 

Key lime pie is made with canned sweetened condensed milk, since fresh milk was not a common commodity in the Florida Keys before modern refrigerated distribution methods.

DID YOU KNOW?

In 1965, Florida State Representative Bernie Papy, Jr., introduced legislation calling for a $100 fine to anyone advertising Key lime pie not made with Key limes. Needless to say, no matter how crazy FLorida is, the bill did not pass.

In 2006, both the Florida House of Representatives and the Florida Senate passed legislation making Key Lime Pie as the “Official Pie of the State of Florida”, as of July 1, 2006.

WHAT ARE KEY LIMES?

Key limes are also known as Mexican lime and West Indies lime. Cultivated for thousands of years in the Indo-Malayan region, the Key lime made its way to North Africa and the Near East via Arabian traders, and then carried on to Palestine and Mediterranean Europe by the Crusaders. Columbus is credited with bringing the Key lime to Hispaniola (now known as Haiti), where it was carried on by Spanish settlers to Florida.

Key Limes flourish in South Florida, particularly the Florida Keys, giving them their current name. Due to hurricane-depleted soils, locals switched from growing pineapples  to limes in 1906, and business boomed until a hurricane once again reared and wiped out the lime groves, never to be restored. Today, most Key limes come from Mexico.

Key limes are much smaller (ping-pong to golfball-sized) than Persian limes, nearly spherical, thin-skinned, and often contain a few seeds. Green key limes are actually immature fruits, prized for their acidity. As they ripen to a yellow color, the acid content diminishes greatly, resulting in a sweeter fruit.

MONDAY – JUNE 10, 2013

TODAY’S FOOD QUOTE 

“We haven’t had any tea for a week…..The bottom is out of the Universe” Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

FOOD HOLIDAYS – Today is:

– National Black Cow Day
– National Iced Tea Day

– Men’s Health Week  (June 10-16, 2013)
– UK: Food Safety Week  (June 10-16, 2013)

TODAY IN FOOD HISTORY

On this day in:

1869 Frozen food was shipped long distance for the first time. Frozen Texas beef shipped by steamship to New Orleans.

1952 Mylar was registered as a DuPont trademark.  Mylar is a very strong polyester film that has gradually replaced cellophane.  It is used as a food wrap in addition to many other non-food uses.

1985 A ‘Most Embarrassing Moment’: Coca Cola announced it was bringing back the old formula Coke, to replace the New Coke nobody wanted.

DID YOU KNOW?

R. Blechyden served tea with ice at the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904 and supposedly invented iced tea.  Not true. He may have popularized iced tea at the World’s Fair, but he did not invent it.  Iced tea had been around since at least since 1890. It is mentioned in the ‘Nevada Noticer’, Sept 28, 1890

THIS WEEK’S FEATURED FOOD FESTIVALS:

June 12, 2013  Virginia Pork Festival – Emporia, Virginia
June 12-15, 2013  Ice Cream Days – Le Mars, Iowa
June 14, 2013  Truckeroo Food Truck Festival – Washington D.C.
June 15, 2013  Chocolate, Shakespeare & Champagne – Winona, Minnesota
June 15, 2013  19th Annual RC & Moon Pie Festival – Bell Buckle, Tenn.
June 16, 2013  Big Bite Bacon Fest – San Diego, California

If the Theme is Tea, than why not some Chai Tea Gelato? Its awesome and comes in both soy and dairy based!

Can you name songs that have the word Ice Cream in it? We tried looking for songs with gelato,  but they are only in Italian!

But find below five songs that celebrate Ice Cream…..one of them might just be  your favorite song!

source:  http://music.yahoo.com/blogs/list-of-the-day/five-ice-cream-songs.html

Jefferson Airplane–“Ice Cream Phoenix“: I have no idea what an Ice Cream Phoenix is and I don’t see any connection whatsoever between the much loved dessert and this song, but before the group splintered into Jefferson Starship and eventually Starship, building cities on rock n’ roll, they played this annoyingly loud music that still sounds really good when you’re too tired to do anything else. And for this, they make this list. (So, aspiring bands, consider putting the words “Ice Cream” into your next masterpiece. It could pay off someday!)

Van Halen–“Ice Cream Man“: Tom Waits and Jonathan Richman also have songs with the same name, but this old blues tune being played by the Van Halen brothers, Michael and Dave makes for a better photo opportunity, especially considering that ¾ of the group have decided to reunite for our benefit and are therefore in the news again. Besides, they don’t let ice cream hog all the glory. Props are given to lemonade. And David Lee Roth does manage to make the song more about him somehow. Imagine that!

Love–“The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything Like This“: Love were this group of misfits from Los Angeles who people in Cincinnati really like. Led by Arthur Lee, they recorded songs about snot caking against their pants, residential real estate being improperly classified as commercial property (“A House is NOT a Motel”) and this wonderful tribute to Ice Cream salesmen. All of which can be heard on their 1967 album Forever Changes, an album provably better than the collected works of Papa Roach, I assure you.

NRBQ–“I Love Air Conditioning“: “And when I’m tired and HOT, I stop at the Ho-Jo’s and get some ice cream,” sings the very excited singer of this song, who also praises the virtues of air conditioning. I would’ve done an entire column on the five best songs about air conditioning, except after this one, I didn’t find any others. I’m not saying they aren’t out there. And if they are, by all means, let me know. The world has enough songs about “broken hearts” and how the world isn’t fair because SHE won’t talk to you, we need more about useful appliances.

Captain Beefheart–“Ice Cream For Crow“: No one made better dance music in his prime than Captain Beefheart. Crowds the world over flocked to the dance floor to try out their latest moves to the great man’s tumultuous rhythms. However, while “Ice Cream For Crow” certainly made a massive impact on popular culture in 1982 alongside Michael Jackson’s Thriller, it wasn’t enough for the Captain to continue and he took his toys and went home, preferring to paint his pictures in the desert and never record another note of music. Michael Jackson, sadly, did not follow suit.

Nuts are a popular snack and an ingredient in both sweet treats and main dishes. If you like to eat nuts, pistachios are one of the healthier options. They are filled with essential nutrients and have a number of health benefits, helping you to control your body weight and lowering your risk for heart problems.  Gelato Petrini makes two delicious flavors using pistachio: Pure Pistachio and Pistachio Cardamom Chip. Call us and reserve a few pints for a delicious indulgence!

Pistachios contain fewer calories and more potassium and vitamin K per serving than other nuts. A 1-ounce serving of dry-roasted pistachios contains 160 calories, 6 grams of protein, 3 grams of fiber and 15 grams of fat, including only 2 grams of saturated fat. It also provides you with 25 percent of the daily value for vitamin B-6, 15 percent of the daily value for thiamine and phosphorus and 10 percent of the daily value for magnesium.

Snacking on pistachios may help lower your cholesterol. Study participants who consumed a low-calorie diet with either 10 percent of their total calories or 20 percent of their total calories in the form of pistachios for four weeks lowered their cholesterol more than participants who followed the Step 1 diet for lowering cholesterol, according to a study published in the “American Journal of Clinical Nutrition” in September 2008. Pistachios also contain l-arginine, which can make the lining of your arteries more flexible and make it less likely you will develop blood clots that could cause a heart attack, and vitamin E, which makes it less likely your arteries will become clogged with plaque, notes MayoClinic.com.

If you like snacking on nuts, you can control your weight by limiting your portions. The fiber content of the nuts may make them more filling, helping you to eat fewer calories later on in the day. A study published in the “Journal of the American College of Nutrition” in June 2010 found that participants who consumed 240 calories worth of pistachios for 12 weeks lowered their body mass indexes and triglyceride levels more than those who consumed 220 calories worth of pretzels.

excerpts taken from http://healthyeating.sfgate.com/benefits-eating-pistachios-1507.html