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Celebrated Chef Cooks Organic for Costco
OCTOBER 31, 2009 --
Gourmet chef Paul Bertolli, who has served such guests as Princess Margaret and Rex Harrison as private chef for Sir Harold Acton, now is producing a line of fresh, ready-to-eat dishes for sale at Costco warehouse stores.
There are four dishes in the line – organic polenta, penne Bolognese, beef braised in Zinfandel with vegetables, and turkey meat loaf. All are unfrozen with no preservatives or hormone additives. The meals serve five, and sell for $14 or less.
According to Kate Coleman, in an article for The San Francisco Chronicle, last year Bertolli decided to branch out from artisanal salumis produced for Fra’Mani, which he founded in 2006 in Berkeley, CA, to produce fully cooked dishes for Costco’s precooked food section.
He went to natural food grade shows and found Montana farmers raising Piedmont beef, which he uses for his braised beef in Zinfandel and for the Bolognese sauce for the pasta. He buys his polenta from San Francisco’s Al Giusto flour company because it mills the whole kernel of corn, preserving germ and bran. Turkeys used by Bertolli are raised “under the sky” and slaughtered and processed at a family farm in Sonora, CA.
The recipes are being produced by Delmonico Specialty Foods, San Jose, CA, under Bertolli’s supervision.
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