Simple Squares

Another day, another brand of snack bar to review."Clean energy and made with only 5 ingredients, SIMPLE is perfect for CrossFit, workouts, travel, meal replacement"Simple Squares are yet another non-gmo, paleo, gluten-free, organic, kosher, etc bar.  No dairy, soy, wheat, gluten, refined sugars.  The name is straightforward: simple ingredients, and, unlike most products of the kind, they are squares, rather than rectangles.  They come in 8 varieties. Chili...

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Nonni's Biscotti

While I am an avid lover of desserts and most baked goods, cookies, and cookie-like things, are usually pretty low on my list (one notable exception being the totally crazypants delicious Salted Caramel Manifesto cookies from Sweet Street!).  Biscotti, in particular, absolutely not something I generally care for.  That said, every once in a while, when I have a really high quality Americano or long black, with a perfect crema on top ... I just love to have...

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Haig's Delicacies

If you live in the Bay Area, and have ever browsed the pre-made Mediterranean foods section of the grocery store, you'll likely recognize the name Haig's."THE ORIGINAL & THE BEST SINCE 1956."Haig's Delicacies is a San Francisco based Armenian snack food producer that started as a store in the Richmond in the 1950's, but now they produce ready made foods for grocery distribution, along with wholesale.  Every product they make is not only vegetarian, but many...

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Emmi

Emmi is the largest Swiss milk processor, and the maker of dairy goods distributed throughout Europe and a number of other countries.  The dairy coop has been around since the early 1900s, but the brand was not established until the 1940s.  Today, they make many different product lines, mostly yogurt and cheese based.I haven't ever seen Emmi in the United States, but when visiting my Paris and London offices, they were commonplace, and so I had a chance to...

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