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Batali Salumi!
  • Jan 28, 2014
Batali Salumi!

This week we area proud to feature a Salumi Package from Batali Salumi! In 2005, one of this country’s great curemasters, Armandino Batali, got a call from a kid in New York trying to sell him pork. He thought it suspicious at best and maybe even a practical joke, but after repeated attempts, he finally relented and brought in a pallet of 30lb Heritage hams, jowl and shoulders to his beautiful facility in Seattle proper.

Rare Breed Heritage Chicken Tour
  • Jan 23, 2014
Rare Breed Heritage Chicken Tour

Last summer we launched our Rare Breed Heritage Chicken Tour – an effort to revive 24 rare, heritage chicken lines and create an alternative market for non-industrially bred chicken.  We partnered with Frank Reese, the country’s preeminent poultry farmer, to show our customers what real chicken tastes like.

Tunis Lamb on Pasture
  • Dec 9, 2013
Meadowood Farm Tunis Lamb

This Holiday Season we are proud to offer Tunis Lamb from Meadowood Farms in Cazenovia, New York. Meadowood Farms produces fine sheep and cow cheeses that our friends at Saxelby Cheese have been carrying for a some time. After a visit to the farm this summer, we began working with Meadowood to feature beef from their Belted Galloway cattle. We decided to deepen our relationship with them this fall after we tasted their incredible lamb.

Frank Reese on Heritage Turkeys
  • Nov 21, 2013
Frank Reese on Heritage Turkeys

Our very own Frank Reese was profiled in Modern Midwest as a farmer who “wants to change the way you think about your Thanksgiving Meal Centerpiece.”

Talking Heritage Turkey with Frank Reese on Heritage Radio Network
  • Nov 14, 2013
Talking Heritage Turkey with Frank Reese on Heritage Radio Network

Frank Reese live on Heritage Radio Network! This week on No Chefs Allowed, Heritage turkey hero Frank Reese talks with hosts, Megan and Tricia as they begin planning for Thanksgiving. Frank, a fourth-generation turkey farmer, is the ambassador for the turkeys that used to feed America.

Iroquois White Corn Project: Husking Bee
  • Nov 6, 2013
Iroquois White Corn Project: Husking Bee

Heritage Foods USA is working with the Iroquois White Corn Project in the Finger Lake Region to revive Iroquois White Corn, an heirloom corn variety, as part of a traditional Native American diet and provide a sustainable market for Haudenosaunee farmers.

Iroquois White Corn
  • Nov 6, 2013
Iroquois White Corn

Heritage Foods USA is proud to be the sole national distributor of Iroquois White Corn, an heirloom corn variety that has been a traditional staple of the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) diet for 2,000 years. Heritage Foods USA is working with the Iroquois White Corn Project in the Finger Lake Region to revive Iroquois White Corn as part of a traditional Native American diet and provide a sustainable market for Haudenosaunee farmers.

Goatober Press Release
  • Sep 20, 2013
Goatober Press Release

No Goat Left Behind is an annual project launched in 2011 by Heritage Foods USA designed to introduce goat meat to American diners and develop a sustainable end market to support farmers in the Northeast. We are proud to partner with 14 New York State and Vermont family farms to sell hundreds of goats to restaurants and home consumers throughout this October.  Thanks to our partner restaurants, you will be able to find goat on the finest dinner tables across New York City.