Port Chatham seafood has been providing smoked wild seafood products from Alaska and the Pacific Northwest since 1935. Some of the products they produce and ship are Copper River Sockeye, King Salmon and Dungeness Crab, They also have gift baskets, corporate gift boxes and feature a seafood of the month club. Their website claims they practice and participate in environmentally sustainable fishing practices, and thats a good thing! [Portlock Wild Smoked Seafood]
Vegans, rejoice! Going Native is a California company dedicated to bringing you international dishes with as many natural ingredients as possible. Not only are their products natural, but they have no MSG, no gluten, no hydrogenated oils, no trans fats and little to no cholesterol, yet are all microwaveable. Their current offerings are Bangkok Beauty (Vegetable Green Curry), Maharaja Magic (Paneer Makhani), Wattakka (Pumpkin Curry), and Sherpa’s Delight (Potato and Bamboo Shoot Curry).
The website itself is interesting as you can see where the country of origin is for each dish when you move your mouse over each product’s name, as well as what the cooked dish looks like. There is a contact form and address, but it is not possible to buy the products on the website. [Going Native]
Fortune cookies for dogs? Kung Fu Fido are all natural dog treats with funny fortunes inside for the dog owners. Each container (a Chinese food takeout container, of course), has twelve wrapped cookies. The cookies themselves are made with flour, eggs, water, sugar, and chicken liver. You can order the cookies from the company’s website. Sojo Foods also sells a number of other dog and cat foods as well. [Kung Fu Fido Dog Treats]
Here is an interesting device for aerating wine from Metrokane, the folks who brought you the Rabbit Corkscrew . The Wine Shower Funnel with Strainer, not only lets you get air into the wine but has a handy dandy strainer for dealing with any sediment or bits of cork that might be floating in the wine. Sediment tends to show up in red wine mostly, and corkage problems do effect a certain number of bottles of many vintages. All in all, a handy item if you are into red wines. [Wine Shower Funnel]
The Orca Beverage Company has brought back to life a number of “classic” American sodas. On this site, they present BubbleUp (a lemon lime soda), Dad’s Classic Draft Root Beer (made with the original 1937 formula), Quench (a grapefruit soda from the 1940’s), NuGrape ( a grape soda that was first bottled in 1921), Nesbitt’s of California (they began bottling the orange soda in 1938, and used Marilyn Monroe as a poster girl in 1946), and Sioux City Sodas (which include such interesting flavors as birch beer and sarsaparilla).
One of the more interesting of the sodas here is the original Moxie. A link leads to the history and even music of this drink that gave us the term “moxie” (meaning to have nerve or guts) So get some Moxie and try some![Orca Beverage]
