Deli

The World Cheese Awards, the largest and most respected cheese competition in the world, is now open for entries.  Cheesemakers can download entry forms or enter on-line at www.finefoodworld.co.uk/wca which has full details of classes and cheese delivery information. …

Frontline International, Inc., one of this year’s winners of the National Restaurant Association’s 2012 Kitchen Innovations Award, offers Smart Oil Management solutions that work together as a completely hands-free system for filling fryers with fresh oil and draining waste oil from fryers. Automatically, with just a push of a button, the fryer is filled with oil. Push another button, and used oil is automatically drained from the fryer and goes directly to a waste oil containment tank. No messy pouring oil or toting buckets of hot grease. Your employees will never touch cooking oil again. …

The cheese experts at St. Louis-based Schnuck Markets, Inc. are teaming up with Sartori cheese of Wisconsin to showcase the award-winning Sartori Limited Edition Pastorale Blend cheese for a great cause. From Oct. 1, 2012 – Jan. 1, 2013, the two family-owned companies will partner in a fundraiser benefiting the Make-A-Wish® Missouri and Make-A-Wish® Wisconsin, where this event has special meaning. …

Kettle Cuisine announced the recent hire of Ryan “Bucky” Baenen to West Coast Foodservice Regional Manager. Kettle Cuisine, which has been a staple in the kitchens of the most discerning chefs in the Northeast for over 25 years, is expanding the availability of their soups, chilis, chowders and stews to the West Coast, and Baenen, an industry veteran, will lead the charge. …

We started exporting to the United States 12 years ago. At one stage we sold more to the US than in Ireland. It was crazy as people were often returning from holidays in America, telling us they’d seeing our product over there. …