To Your Heart’s Content

I was heartened to come across this blog entry today: MY TOP TEN FAV FANCY FOOD SHOW PRODUCTS on the Tango Diva website. What really made me happy was to see some of my other favorite products from the show on her list too: Poco Dolce and the Sticky Toffee Pudding folks, for instance. I like to […]

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It’s that time of year again - well, yes, the holiday season and all… Christmas, Hanukkah, New Years, etc. But the Winter Fancy Food Show comes around in January on the West Coast. Normally it’s held in San Francisco, and later in the month. But this year it will be in lovely San Diego, and […]

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If you’re looking for something fun to do this year with your holiday parties, consider doing a s’mores bar with Plush Puffs! This time of the year we get booked to do party catering with our gourmet s’mores bars. We’ve done everything from black-tie affairs to winery events, a gallery opening, to funky little parties […]

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Once in awhile we do charitable fundraisers with our marshmallows - sometimes we just toast them up, sometimes we do full-out s’mores bars. It’s a great way to introduce people to Plush Puffs and raise money for a good cause. We get a lot of requests for straight donations of our product, but we usually […]

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We got these great pictures from the women at Kickass Cupcakes in Somerville, MA. Look how much fun we are having with your marshmallows!!! We have a S’Mores cupcake as Cupcake of the Day on Fridays…we all fight over who gets the blow torch duty to toast the marshmallows. YUM! We love your marshmallows.  Now that is a toasting torch!    

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One year someone tells you gift baskets are out, the next, they’re in and so on. Anyway you slice it, it’s a mulit-milliion dollar biz, so best to conclude, they’re not exactly going away.
So, we did some gift baskets last year. We sold a decent amount to boot. We did […]

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Being from California, it’s always a fun trip to visit New York City. We don’t get there often enough. So we were looking forward to the Summer Fancy Food Show, July 8th-10th.
Trade shows are hard work, even when they are filled with every delicious food product known to humans. We flew in on Friday night, […]

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Part of the job of selling gourmet food is doing in-store demos with your product - you know those people standing around in the store giving away free food? It’s a great way to meet the store management and customers, and to familiarize them with your stuff.
So we just got back from a trip to […]

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Ann spent the weekend up in Portland, and managed to get a spot on the “AM Northwest” morning show. Here she is showing off Plush Puffs!

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Just more than two and a half years ago, Ann and I decided to get into the gourmet food business with Plush Puffs. She came from the food side, I came from the business side. And we thought “wow, this is going to be fun!”. Well, it has been fun, and it’s been an enormous […]

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