Consume: Our favorite food products this week
Spread
Alexian Truffle Mousse
$5.99 for 5 oz.; Raley’s and other retailers; www.alexianpate.com
This pâte is ridiculously rich with its blend of pork fat, turkey liver, chicken liver, truffles, wild mushrooms, eggs, milk and sherry. Your heart may not thank you, but your taste buds will.
Try
Next Organics snacks
$5.69 for a 5-ounce bag; Nugget, Safeway; www.nextchocolates.com
Fifteen years ago, Tropical Valley Foods was a tiny company in Haiti producing dried organic mango. Since then, it has grown into Next Organics, known for covering organic fruits and nuts in dark chocolate. We recently tried the crystallized ginger and loved it – sweet from the dark chocolate with a hot zing from the ginger. Delicious.
Watch
‘Cooked’
Free with subscription; Netflix; www.netflix.com
Anti-corporate-food crusader Michael Pollan (the award-winning author and UC Berkeley professor) stars in this four-part documentary-series – based on his 2013 book – that highlights “our primal need” to spend time cooking and the importance all things sustainable and homemade. The series is directed by Academy Award winner Alex Gibney (“Taxi to the Dark Side”).
Order
Nutella croissant
$2.75 each; Freeport Bakery (2966 Freeport Blvd., Sacramento); www.freeportbakery.com
What could be better than the nutty-chocolate flavor of Nutella encased inside one of Freeport’s buttery, crisp-skinned croissants? It’s a decadent way to start the day.
Drink
Kern’s Nectar
90 cents for an 11.5-ounce can; area supermarkets; www.kerns.com
Few drinks bring to mind upcoming warm-weather days quite like Kerns noncarbonated juice drinks, especially its peach and mango flavors. They’re not cloyingly sweet (despite the high-fructose corn syrup), and, served cold, are a tasty thirst-quencher.
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This story was originally published February 26, 2016 at 4:01 PM with the headline "Consume: Our favorite food products this week."