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| December 13, 2012 | Issue No. 15
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Add Some Flavor to This Holiday Season
As the last leaves fall and autumn welcomes winter, the holidays are suddenly upon us, and serving just-right holiday menu items to bring in customers is the goal of foodservice professionals everywhere.
Chefs know that the holiday season is all about indulgence, and even the most health-conscious consumers give their waistline a break at this time of year. From savory dishes with rich sides, salads and sauces, to elaborate and decadent desserts, 'tis the season to impress guests with high-quality ingredients and great tasting meals!
As families pack into restaurants to celebrate the season, giving unique and flavorful boosts to traditional food items is sometimes a challenge, but with Better Than Bouillon® Food Bases, items such as roast turkey, green beans, or mashed potatoes transform from ordinary holiday fare into flavor-packed experiences that your customers are sure to remember!
Whether you're making a thick and creamy soup, a crispy crab cake appetizer with classic remoulade sauce, or juicy, slow roasted prime rib with horseradish− you'll have time to make it delicious with Better Than Bouillon® Food Bases. We know that you get busy during the holiday rush, and this product saves time! Better Than Bouillon® is much quicker than making stock from scratch, plus it is more flavorful than salt-first traditional bouillon or prepackaged broth. Better yet, it can be easily added to any savory dish to give a richer, more robust flavor. Better Than Bouillon® is versatile and allows chefs to get creative.
Offered in an assortment of flavors, Better Than Bouillon® Food Bases are available in Premium, All-Natural Reduced Sodium, and Organic varieties. Make your holiday menu stand out this season with Better Than Bouillon®.
Try this recipe for this Holiday Glazed Ham, featuring Better Than Bouillon®, and wow your guests when they celebrate with you!
Holiday Glazed Ham (Serves 10)
Ingredients and Shopping List 
- 1 (7-10 pound) thawed, smoked, bone in, spiral sliced, fully cooked ham
- ½ cup water
Glaze
- ⅓ cup reduced fat raspberry vinaigrette salad dressing
- 1 cup firmly packed dark brown sugar
- 2 teaspoons Better Than Bouillon® Organic Vegetable Base
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Coat a large rack set inside a roasting pan with cooking spray. Place ham on
rack, add water to pan bottom.
2. In a large saucepan over medium-low heat, whisk to combine raspberry vinaigrette, brown sugar and
Better Than Bouillon® Organic Vegetable Base. Whisk continuously until glaze begins to boil;
remove from heat. Reheat glaze before brushing on ham, if needed.
3. Generously brush ham with glaze; use remaining glaze to baste ham every 30 minutes,
discard left over glaze.
4. If ham starts to over brown, lightly cover ham with foil. Bake until done, about 2 hours.
Additional glaze may be prepared and served warm
tableside to accompany sliced ham.
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Visit RATIONAL USA at the 2013 NAFEM Show  February 7-9, 2013, RATIONAL USA will exhibit at the 2013 NAFEM Show in Orlando, FL at the Orange County Convention Center. Come visit RATIONAL USA at Booth 843 and also in the WHAT'S HOT! WHAT'S COOL!® new product gallery at Booth 1422. At the booth, RATIONAL USA will deliver a variety of  e xquisite food items that will be cooked in the SelfCookingCenter® whitefficiency®. Why event caterers' lives are made easier with RATIONAL  With RATIONAL, event caterers who cook live
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Induction Cooking - Now's The Time! Induction Cooking has been used in Europe for well over 40 years now but, until recently really hasn't gotten much attention here in the states. Mostly confined to small single "eye" units, induction was fairly expensive and not that reliable. Add to that the need for expensive cookware and you can understand the reluctance. HOWEVER, leading manufacturers like Dipo, CookTec, & Vollrath, to name just three, have greatly improved the reliability, lowered the cost, and added larger units to their product lines! Commercial production pieces now include stock pot units, 6 "eye" range tops, and even griddles are now available in excess of 7,000 watts! Induction Cooking uses electromagnetic waves to actually cause the cooking pot/pan to become the "heat generator". Virtually every degree of electric energy used goes directly into cooking the product NOT loosing that heat to you and your kitchen! In fact, Induction Cooking is up to 95% Energy Efficient. Induction Cooking is also faster than gas, cleaner in that spills won't burn on the glass surface, and costs less to operate. In fact, an 1,800 watt Induction unit replacing a butane unit on a buffet line or omelet station will pay for itself in less than one year due to energy savings. In a recent seminar at the Food Service Technology Center in San Ramon, CA, David Zebrowski, Director of Engineering for the center described the "Kitchen of the Future". In this kitchen, gas range tops were replaced by induction as the chef can reduce his cook times, turn up or down the "heat" quicker, and radiate much less heat into the kitchen than can gas. For more information on high efficiency Induction Cooking or to see a demo please contact Rick Maurer, Foodservice Segment Specialist, Georgia Power Company @ 770-801-5988 or e-mail ramaurer@southernco.com. Bring Your Kitchen Into The Future - Now! 
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Halperns' is proud to offer a 2nd Option in USDA Prime Dry Aged Beef. It is said that Himalayan Salt is the purist of all salt and was formed over 600 million years ago when the inland sea evaporated at the foot of the Himalayan mountain range. Sealed underground by Volcanic and geologic activities, this salt is now harvested for both medical and culinary purposes. The Pink Salt Wall in our newest Dry Age room flavors the air while purifying it. The humidity is perfectly controlled to increase tenderness and enhance flavor. The Pink Salt is rich in Iron, Calcium, and 82 other trace minerals which flavor the air and help act as a "Anti-Microbial" helping to kill bacteria. The finished product produces a clean, refreshing taste and exceptional tenderness.
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FreshPoint Top 5 Reasons to Buy Locally Grown Food -
Exceptional Taste And Freshness.
Local food is fresher and tastes better than food shipped long distances. Local farmers can offer varieties bred for taste and freshness rather than for shipping and long shelf life. When you buy produce from out west, it has typically been picked at least 4 to 7 days before being delivered to you, and is transported an average of 1800 miles. When produce is imported from other countries, the time and distance are significantly longer. - Strengthen The Local Economy.
Buying local food keeps our dollars in our community. Getting to know the farmers who grow our food builds relationships based on understanding and trust, the foundation of strong communities.
- Support Endangered Family Farms.
There's never been a more critical time to support our farming neighbors. With each local food purchase, you ensure that more of the money you spend on food goes to the farmer. Estimates say that farmers only receive between 10 to 18 cents of every dollar that you spend for retail produce. When you buy local products, you are helping to provide an opportunity for farming families to continue the work they love. Farming is a time-honored way of life. By buying locally, you help preserve this connection with nature, insight into weather, the seasons, and the miracle of raising food.
- Safeguard Your Family's Health.
Knowing where your food comes from and how it is grown enables you to choose safe food from farmers who avoid or reduce their use of chemicals, pesticides, hormones, antibiotics, or genetically modified seed in their operations. Recent news stories, such as e-Coli outbreaks and genetically modified crops, highlight the importance of knowing what happens to your food before it reaches your table.
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Protect The Environment.
Local food doesn't have to travel as far. This reduces carbon dioxide emissions and packing materials. Buying local food also helps make farming more profitable and selling farmland for development less attractive. As our use of oil and energy continues to grow, prices soar. We need to rely on more energy-efficient agricultural methods, like buying locally-grown goods, whenever possible. There are also environmental costs involved with current consumption patterns. Large-scale "agribusiness" style agriculture can contribute to the pollution of our soils and water.
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The Mission of Gluvana Gluten-Free Foods is actually quite simple. Our goal is to bring balance to the gluten-free movement. Through relevant product offerings, we aim to make it easier to bring tasty balanced nutrition to grain-based gluten-free foods. Our base mixes leverage the balance and consistent performance of ancient grains as the cornerstone to providing the taste and nutrition that is critical to consumers looking to avoid gluten in their diets.
The evolution of the company originated from the founder's desire to enjoy gluten-free eating whenever and wherever - without sacrificing taste or a balanced nutritional diet,
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Contact:
Cheryl Glass
PO Box 13223
Tallahassee, FL 32317
850.556.7736
cheryl@acfatlantachefs.org
www.acfatlantachefs.org
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