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Our Partners

Just Simply… Cuisine values active partnerships with small businesses and organizations whose shared purpose is to improve our food supply.

Firefly Farms, Accident, Maryland

FireFly Farms Creamery and Market provides Just Simply… Cuisine with its products to use in our classes on an ongoing basis.

Firefly offers award‐winning premium goat cheese that features the distinct regional flavors of Mountain Maryland. Each cheese is artfully handcrafted and aged with precise detail offering distinguished flavor and exceptional texture. Made in Accident, Maryland, FireFly Farms’ cheeses are produced with agriculturally sustainable, locally‐sourced fresh goat’s milk and time‐honored, traditional methods of cheese making.

Over the past 20 years, Founders Mike Koch and Pablo Solanet have made FireFly Farms into a successful hand-made cheese business grounded in partnerships with farmers and a strong commitment to sustainability. FireFly is actively committed to caring for the land and protecting the environment for today’s communities and future generations.

Lodge Cast Iron, South Pittsburg, Tennessee

Lodge provides Just Simply… Cuisine with its quality cookware to use in our classes on an on going basis.

Founded in 1896, Lodge is the oldest family-owned and operated cookware foundry in America. Lodge Cast Iron produces the most extensive selection of quality cast iron goods on the market and offers an expanded line of affordable, cast iron cookware for America’s kitchens — Dutch ovens, cast iron skillets, deep fryers, country kettles and more. Made in the USA of unparalleled quality… Lodge’s legendary cooking performance keeps it on the list of kitchen essentials for great chefs and home kitchens alike.

Maldon Salt, Essex, England

Maldon provides Just Simply… Cuisine with its quality products on an ongoing basis. Maldon takes a slightly salt-centric view of the world and has been producing the finest natural sea salt for the last 130 years. Salt as it should be, hand-harvested with the distinctive flaky texture and taste that lends piquancy to virtually any dish. You could contend that Maldon Salt is really made by nature, with just a little helping hand from man to release it from the clutches of the environment.

Maldon Sea Salt Flakes are loved by chefs and cooks the world over. It’s the soft flaky texture of the sea salt crystals and the cleanness of the salt flavor that makes the difference. None of the bitter after taste that some salts leave; instead a freshness that enhances the flavor of all natural and fine foods.

Seawater is filtered and boiled which, reassuringly, removes any impurities, and then heated until the salt crystallizes. If this sounds easy, there’s an art in temperature and timing and in particular, the traditional ‘drawing’ of the salt by hand from the pans, that confounds anyone without a salt maker’s skills. Natural, traditional, Maldon salt is ancient and modern. The result is the pure white crisp clean crystals that can only be Maldon salt.

PACARI Chocolate, Ecuador

PACARI  produces premium organic chocolate from Ecuador and provides Just Simply… Cuisine its fine products on an ongoing basis. The Arriba Nacional cacao is the Ecuadorian native cacao plant that produces a bean classified as Fino de Aroma which is sought and cherished by chocolate connoisseurs for its extraordinary quality and the diverse and unique notes and aromas that these beans invoque.

PACARI  keeps the highest standards of production with organic methods, which means that there are no chemicals employed in the value chain for the final product. Founded in 2002, PACARI is based on social and environmental principles to ensure the land’s and community’s well being and works on preserving the native cacao seeds. Hence its tagline “from tree to bar”.  Since 2002 PACARI has been granted more than 150 International Chocolate Awards for its high quality.

Rodman’s, Washington, DC

Rodman’s is Just Simply… Cuisine’s exclusive wine purveyor. They also provide our cooking classes with olive oils, vinegars, Maldon Sea Salt Flakes and other international specialty foods.

Rodman’s is a Washington Institution, the area’s original discounter of nationally branded products, family owned and operated since 1955. Rodman*s has been anointed by the Washington Post as “The Weirdest Little Drugstore In Washington.” Over the years the Rodman’s has evolved into an international marketplace filled with unusual and exotic foods, wines and ales, housewares, and the finest European soaps and body care products.

Wagshal’s Market, Washington, DC

Wagshal’s Market provides Just Simply… Cuisine’s cooking classes with their quality products on an ongoing basis.

Wagshal’s Market is a long standing family owned butcher and fishmonger of the finest meats and seafood Washington DC can provide. Wagshal’s hand selected prime beef is dry-aged for at least four weeks before it is cut for display, their all-natural Northeastern US lamb is free from antibiotics and growth hormones, their fresh free-range and farm-raised poultry is from local Shenandoah Valley sources and their seafood is fresh daily from quality vendors who meet very stringent sustainability requirements.

 

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