Updates

As a wicked new company we're always looking to hear feed back and editorial press. Since we've been in business for such a short period (2 months) of time I like to take a moment to recap some of the where were, accolades, and customer feed back we've received. 

Stores:
Savenors Markets Boston/Cambridge
V. Cirace and Sons North End Boston in conjunction with Sogno di Sorrento

Restaurnts:
Kenmore Sq Hotel to open the end of July 2013

Events
Boston Bites Back
Taste Of Cambridge July 11th 2013 Weather Permitted 

Press / Accolades
BostonInno
Just Add Cheese
Gluten Free Boston Girl - Coming Soon

What our customer have been saying

SOOO GOOD!

 2013

I ordered these and brought them to a large family gathering. They are so big and delicious, and we cut each one up into 9 pieces (which were still big chunks) so we could each sample all the flavors. Everyone loved them! Very rich, almost like fudge even! My favorite are the SuperChunk, but I like them all!

Can't be Beat

 2013

These are absolutely the best brownies ever! Gave a box of four as a congratulations gift for a college grad and the whole family couldn't get enough! Next time I'll order extra for everyone!!!

Assorted box of four

 2013

Yet another delicious delivery of brownies arrived! Is it possible that they taste even better than the first time I had them? Containing simple and yet robust flavor; the look and the texture of each brownie are a delight! Thanks for making a great product!

Nice Gift

 2013

We gave these as a gift for our rehearsal dinner everyone loved them. I like that they we're organic. Well Done

Unbelievably Good!

 2013

These brownies are fabulous. So yummy! What else can I say!

We want to give you the best we can and were always striving to be creative and unique. We want to give the basics plus some of the most unique combinations that when eaten the flavors makes sense. Like our JWB bacon brittle brownie or our Jeffersons SBB and Bing Cherry. We are committed using the best ingredients you can buy. We use local organic dairy, eggs, and flour, organic fair trade American made chocolate (not cocoa powder) and American produced organic sugar. Our Cacao is grown on a single source farm in Ecuador, that produces a very rare type of cacao bean unavailable to any other Boston Brownie Baker which results in a super-fudgey brownies that will satisfy the inner chocolate snob in all of us. 

Happy Eating

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Why Should You Buy Organic? Here's Why!

As I read various blogs and websites about the pros and cons of organic farming and the consumer, I found myself asking, is it worth being an organic based company since the cost of being organic is 50% more than the conventional? Then I started to look at things a little differently. The first place to start is defining what is exactly "organic"? According to the FDA CFR 205.2 and the Organic Food Act of 1990. Orgainc farming is not just about avoiding the use chemicals and other synthetics. Its about Crop Diversity by not being a "monoculture" or a single mass production farmer but instead farming a variety a crops. Soil Management by replenishing the soils nutrients with the natural breakdown of organic matter like  "thermophilic composting" and or "green manure". Weed Management when organic farmer rotate crops it has phototoxic effect and stop the growth of weeds. Other methods are tilling, mowing or cutting, thermal weeding, and mulching. Controlling other organisms through the use of natural methods like rotating crops, the use of traps, pest regulating plants, and crop row covers.  

Now what should all this mean to you and me? It means NO Genetically Engineered Foods or Frankenfoods. TThe FDA and US Dept Agriculture gave carte blanche to Monsanto, the worlds leading chemical company and lobbyist of GEF (genetically engineered foods).  With the passing of the "Monsanto Protection Act" allows Monsanto to operate without accountability and if someone dies from using Monsanto's products, Monsanto cannot be held liable. Who's Monsanto? Do you ever read the ingredients label and see the words " Natural Flavors" that my friends is a flavoring chemical a chemical created to deceive you, a chemical that was created in a lab most likely at Monsanto. Chemicals that have been proven to cause cancer and other ailments. They add these to our food supply without disclosure. Even the flour you buy could come from a genetically modified plant and you didn't even know.  Just recently the Japanese have stopped the import of American wheat due to genetic modification. This is a country who recently that had one of the worlds most horrific nuclear disasters. 

My thoughts are, If the FDA, Dept Agri, and any other fed regulators want to introduce GEF's to our food supply it should be disclosed to the consumer. Give us a choice and let us make the decision of what we want to put in our bodies. Until then only way to avoid GEF is to buy organic. 

So in closing to answer my own question. Yes! Eating organic to me is not only a healthier way to eat but a more importantly it's  a more responsible way to live. Most Organic Food are produced locally and this practice helps support your local community. At Boston Brownie Company we use 100% organic ingredients and 90% of our ingredients are locally sourced from New England.  This is how I define Boston Brownie Company ~ "We are organic lifestyle company the just happens to sell brownies". It sounds a little corny but it couldn't be more true see for your self. 

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The Pork Nation - A Downward Not So Glazed Spiral! But there's Hope

A subject matter that has almost absolutely nothing to do with the brownie baking biz, but maybe some what indirectly. The state of pork in this country is  on a downward spiral (pardon the pun). With Shaunghui - Smithfield deal happening the fear that this Chinese company is going to continue its unethical practices by secretly feeding & tainting their pigs with chemicals and synthetic drugs to make them larger. This is a company that recently dumped 16,000 dead diseased pigs and 1 million dead diseased ducks in the Jiapingtang, a tributary of the Huangpu river which supplies drinking water to Shanghai, a city of over 23 million people. Yes these people are buying Smithfeild. The Horror!  The reason Shaunghui is buying Smithfield is for the ever declining pork supply in China. Most of the pigs are tainted and unfit for "HUMAN" consumption (I'd watch out where Fido's & Fluffy's food comes from), and no Gov. oversight. Hence why China is coming to America. Only time will tell, but for the one thing I can tell you is, this guy will never buy anything raised or grown in China. 

The best way to protect you and your loved ones against this type of problem is very simple, buy local. Use farmers that raise their pigs ethically and humanly. Attached is a link to some of Massachusetts best and most reputable pork, beef, & poultry farmers as seen on Porkkeez (A directory of local farmer or pork and other live stock). One of my favorites is  Christian Hill Farm. They raise Berkshire and Gloucestershire Old Spots which are highly sought after for the flavor and texture and its what I use for our Johnnie Walker Blue Bacon Brittle Brownie. These pigs are feed an all natural diet and are slow grown, they are free to roam the 10 mixed woodland and pasture and the 2nd best thing is the a privately family owned and operated farm. These animals are raised with respect and dignity unlike big companies. You can even raise your own. See More About "What it means" to Christian Hill Farm. 

So what does this have to do with brownies? See to me its not the product we bake or what we raise, or grow, it's how we do it!  With determination and drive to provide our community with honest all natural no chemicals high quality foods and ingredients that have be raise and produced locally. This is how we change the standard. 
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Delicious uses for left over vanilla beans

I believe in the "nose to tail" movement, when I was at Marco Cucina Romana in Boston's North End we practiced it. Nothing went to waste, we made stocks, amuse bouche, and salumi from offal. Applying these practices when baking brownies is quit different. When we bake brownies we don't have any waste! Accept for one thing, spent vanilla bean pods. And since the vanilla bean is the second most expensive spice just behind saffron we thought of a couple of ways on how to use spent vanilla beans highlighting some of its natural characteristics. 

Make home made vanilla extract. We love making our own vanilla extract, we know whats in it and we know its quality. So what we do is: Get 1 cup of amber rum and add 3 - 4 pods and bring to a simmer. Once it reaches a simmer remove from the heat and let it stand for 30 - 40 mins. Remove the vanilla beans  and you can use it just like that or you can reduce it to a honey like consistency. Its great for baking and cocktails. The next you have a margarita add a little, you'll love it.

Another favorite is Vanilla Sugar. Take your beans and 2-3 cups of sugar, place them in a ziplock bag and let them sit for a few days. The long they sit the more vanilla flavor you'll get. A nice addition to your morning coffee or another layer of flavor for when you bake.  

Vanilla Liquor! Take 4 - 6 pods add them to a bottle of tequila (my favorite), vodka and or rum. Enhances cocktails amazingly. 

So these are just a few ways you can use left over vanilla beans. Enjoy!

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