Here’s a bit of good news on an otherwise dreary rainy day in Northeastern Ohio.  More Than Gourmet has been awarded Vegan Certification by the prestigious American Vegetarian Association.  This certification applies to our Veggie Stock, our Roasted Veg Demi Glace, ready to use Vegetable cooking stock and our wonderfully versatile Essence de Champignon (mushroom stock) – the latter a product that my carnivore friends relish and were shocked to discover this meaty mushroom stock was Vegan.  They had no idea how great vegan can be.  I like to add a bit of the Essence to Demi Glace Gold or our Glace de Viande for a nice added flavor note. Hey, more consumers than ever are adapting some Vegan or Vegetarian meals into their diets (including my meat loving friends), at least some of the time.  We’ve got some nice products to complement those side dishes and main meals. Try some, and tell us what you think.   Oh, a sudden thought: some new videos coming from the Sauce Bros.  Stay tuned.

One of Chef Louie’s favorite movies is Cool Hand Luke (he calls it a classic).  His favorite line from this flick is “what we have here is a failure to communicate”.  He utters this with us (at us?) from time to time and definitely last week when we were being called by anxious cooks and consumers about the HVP recall.  It seems callers were concerned this recall affected MTG — It did not.  It could not. We don’t use HVP.  We don’t use chemicals, preservatives, MSG, or yeast extracts.  We don’t have them in our plant, or our R+D kitchen,  for that matter.  Ever. We just assumed all our customers understood our products are authentic, our sauce heritage is real, our promise of product purity is a promise kept. Well,  a few inbound calls of  concerned customers compelled Louie to toss out his favorite quote. So, for all those concerned, this is an effort to communicate what we craft for cooks all around the globe:  real food.  Read our labels.