Product Guide Packed with Essential Information, a Little Bit About Us and Listings of All the Wonderful Products We Have for You and Your Business
Total Page:16
File Type:pdf, Size:1020Kb
Product2020/2021 Guide ProductGuide_Covers_v3.indd 1 11/03/2020 13:36 ProductGuide_p02-03_welcome_v5.indd 1 10/03/2020 15:36 WELCOME warm welcome to our all-new product guide packed with essential information, a little bit about us and listings of all the wonderful products we have for you and your business. AWe aim to provide all the fresh produce and fine foods, plus the non-food essentials, your kitchen needs every day. Passionate about all things foody, we focus on fresh produce and source the finest ingredients locally and further afield to help give your business the edge. Think leafy clementines, pawpaw, local mesclun, baby golden beetroot, white asparagus and truffles. We promote seasonality, which is best for our customers and the environment, and that helps set us apart. Take a look at our in season feature on pages 8-9 for an insight into the products we have for every season throughout the year. Our carefully selected range covers fresh produce, bakery, chilled, dairy, modern gastronomy, ambient, crisps & confectionery, drinks, frozen and non-food – you’ll find complete listings from pages 12 to 93. We’ve also included a guide to allergens on pages 10-11 to help you stay up to date with one of the most crucial issues in foodservice right now. Please get in touch to find out how we can help you stand out from the rest – we look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes & countryfare.co.uk 03 ProductGuide_p02-03_welcome_v5.indd 2 11/03/2020 13:15 06 WHO WE ARE A little about us, our passion for food and what we stand for so you can be sure we provide the best in every way IN SEASON 08 Seasonality is key to our ethos and supplying the finest uality produce all year round. Take a look at what’s in season from spring through to winter ALLERGENS 10 A guide to what you need to know about the 1 allergens EXOTIC FRUIT MICROHERBS 04 Product Guide ProductGuide_p04-05_contents_v7.indd 1 10/03/2020 16:49 CONTENTS LISTINGS SECTION FRUIT & VEGETABLES 12 Locally grown and globally sourced, from English apples to exotic starfruit 24 CHILLED A gourmet selection that’s perfect for CONTINENTAL CHEESES delis and bars 31 29 DAIRY Everyday staples plus a selection of MODERN GASTRONOMY the finest cheeses, including vegan 65 Contemporary products to help choices, to make connoisseurs rejoice chefs create and serve dishes with an extra-special touch FRESH BAKERY 36 An artisan range of breads freshly DRINKS baked to order, pastries and cakes 68 Sophisticated and everyday hot and cold drinks, including locally AMBIENT produced teas and bottled water 39 All the products you could ever need for your kitchen 73 ICE CREAM & SORBET One of the nation’s favourite treats, CRISPS & CONFECTIONERY our range has all the favourites, plus 60 Specially selected savoury snacks amazing innovative flavours too and sweet treats FROZEN 76 Every meal occasion is covered in our frozen food category, which also includes a meat-free range CLEANING CHEMICALS & 88 DISPOSABLES Everything you need to run a clean and hygienic kitchen and front-of- house, with 100 compostable options LISTINGS KEY PRODUCT IS VEGAN PRODUCT IS GLUTEN-FREE countryfare.co.uk 05 ProductGuide_p04-05_contents_v7.indd 2 10/03/2020 16:50 “A foodservice company like no other” ProductGuide_p6-7_AboutUs_v5.indd 1 10/03/2020 17:43 ABOUT US WE ARE n 200 we started ountry are with a to have a positive impact on our local, and passion for food and the aim of building a wider, community and the environment. foodservice company to be proud of. iteen That’s why we help the homeless by providing Iyears later and we have seen amazing growth, food to charities and support a scheme that with the privilege of becoming one of the maor helps vulnerable families. ur reach etends foodservice suppliers for the south of ngland. beyond the too as we work with a charity ased in ournemouth, we are an supporting coffee growers and a school in independent, family-run fresh produce supplier, ganda. loser to home we support local one of only a handful in orset and ampshire. producers, recycle packaging and do all we We may be small but we demand good prices in can to reduce our carbon footprint, such as the markets and we care about every single one carefully coordinating deliveries and combining of our customers, providing the best possible customer deliveries with collections from local service 2. farms. We aim to be carbon neutral by 203. VISION ONTREND We have a vision and that is to be the supplier ur eye is always on the latest trends in food of choice and employer of choice. ur mission and drink and the changing needs of our is to be a passionate team of fresh thinkers customers. That’s why you’ll see we have a delivering uality products through ecellent variety of gluten-free, meat-free and vegan customer service. We do this through our five products across our listings. core values. rdering with us is as easy as pie. We like to think we have all bases covered. ou can 1 We are passionate about food. call and speak to our knowledgeable, friendly 2 We go above and beyond. customer service colleagues. r log on to our 3 We are honest and transparent. website to order uickly and easily online. Plus, 4 We have a can-do attitude. we now have an app where, as well as ordering 5 We value each other. your supplies, you will also find special offers, help videos, your order history and a list of your ur motto is fresh thinking’. o we supply favourites, all designed to make your life easier. the freshest produce and finest foods from ur delivery drivers are out and about seven our local area and around the globe. We are a days a week to make sure you get what you need company that strives to think outside the bo when you need it. ur fleet of ambient and and we love challenges that provide us with an chilled vans deliver to ymington, alisbury, opportunity to innovate and change. We see this haftsbury, orchester, outhampton and as a chance to make us better ou could say Weymouth, including all surrounding areas. fresh thinking is at our core. ollow us on acebook, Twitter and nstagram Provenance is important to us and that’s why and read our monthly magazine, resh Thinking our products are sourced and grown locally, where Promotions, for our latest news, product possible, with a great deal of care and attention. info and offers. nd check out our blog at We work closely with the people behind the countryfare.co.uk to find out what we’ve been amazing products we offer and with our suppliers doing in our uest to know all we possibly can to make sure our customers only get the best. about food. We started with a desire to go above and POSITIVE IMPACT beyond in discovering new ways to move n everything we do we always have ethics forward, and we remain dedicated to that at the front of our minds. We endeavour today and for the future. l countryfare.co.uk 07 ProductGuide_p6-7_AboutUs_v5.indd 2 10/03/2020 17:44 A CROP Thanks to our varied climate and fertile land, there is so much gorgeous fresh produce that can be grown on home soil and we source locally whenever we can SPRING Rhubarb Known as a fruit but actually a vegetable, rhubarb’s season is brief but bountiful. Most of Britain’s rhubarb comes from an area known as the Yorkshire Rhubarb Triangle – which is in an area between Wakefield, orley and othwell – where the damp, loamy soil and plenty of rain create the perfect growing conditions. As it has such a tart, bitter taste, rhubarb always needs sweetening, whether that’s by adding sugar, cooking with a naturally sweet fruit, such as strawberries, or using orange or are edible, the leaves are actually poisonous ABOVE Sweet and succulent apple uice. This versatile vegetable, stewed, s well as being amazing in all kinds of sweet greengages are known by poached, roasted and pured, is used to make recipes, try it in savoury dishes, such as pork different names depending on all sorts of delicious dishes, and is perfect in chops with rhubarb grains or grilled with where you’re eating them – in sauces to accompany rich meats and oily fish, calves’ liver. France they’re known as Reine- such as pork, duck and mackerel. Claude and in Turkey as Erik! When selecting rhubarb, don’t be swayed SUMMER by the colour of the stalks as that is not a sign Greengages It’s such a lovely name for this LEFT Rhubarb has a short of how ripe the fruit is or how sweet it is. The little plum-like fruit that’s reminiscent of long, and not-so-sweet season, stalks can range in colour from pale green to hot summer days, plucked and eaten straight which makes it all the more a deep purplish-red and beware only the stalks from the tree. They range in colour from appealing on menus. It’s yellow to dark green and are sweet and uicy actually made up of 95% when fully ripe and deliciously moreish. This water, which helps make it sweet dessert plum was first imported into so versatile to cook with ritain in 12 but is a firm favourite now in our cuisine. Perfect enoyed ust as they are, greengages are also cooked in desserts or used in savoury accompaniments, such as chutney, to cut through the richness of certain meats, oily fish or rich, creamy cheese.