Deli

Creminelli Fine Meats announces the availability of its new line of hand-crafted artisan deli meats to the foodservice community, through specialty food distributors including JDY Gourmet and Chefs Warehouse. The new line, which includes several varieties unique to the United States, provides chefs with the opportunity to enhance their menus and recipes. It will be available immediately in California, Nevada and Illinois, and across the country by September. …

A national panel of expert judges today named a Wisconsin goats milk cheese as the 2011 U.S. Championship Cheese. Katie Hedrich, of LaClare Farms in Chilton, Wis., took top honors out of 1,604 entries from 30 states for her Evalon, a hard goats milk cheese. …

Red Barn Family Farms, an Appleton, WI family-owned dairy company, is proud to announce its premium white cheddar cheeses won both a gold and silver medal in the Bandaged Cheddar category at the U.S. Championship Cheese Contest in Green Bay on March 9. …

Wornick Foods, a leading manufacturer of convenience foods and customized meal solutions, announced it will undertake a new initiative to commercialize microwave assisted thermal sterilization technology (MATS). MATS is a newly developed, FDA approved process for sterilizing foods that can dramatically improve food quality over traditional food processing techniques. …

Zweigle’s Inc., a Rochester, N.Y., establishment, is recalling approximately 2,997 pounds of bologna products that may be contaminated with Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today. …