Chef Sarah Robinson Shares Her Love of Butter’s Fine Food and Wine
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on February 14, 2012
Butter’s Fine Food and Wine to add ‘Butter’s Nook Cafe’ to Existing Store
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on May 4, 2011
Butter’s Fine Food and Wine will be making some small changes to the store within the next 2 weeks. Chef Owner Kristy Stephens Ammann says the plans are in place to put couches and tall tables in the back of the store so customers can have a place to eat their sandwiches, sit down during a wine tasting, or enjoy a cup of locally roasted coffee.
“We’re hoping to give our customer’s a place to socialize, conduct business, or surf the net on their computers. It’s going to be like having a physical offline version of ButtersBook” (the new online food and drink social networking site). “Now our customer’s will have a place to sit down for an extended amount of time and enjoy the food and the atmosphere that makes Butter’s Fine Food and Wine so special .”
Butter’s Fine Food and Wine just added 2 Bistro tables to the front of the store on Saturday and customers seem to be enjoying them already.
The name of the cafe is to be named Butter’s Nook Cafe. Butter’s already serves coffee from a locally roasted coffee company, but plans to expand the selection and have coffee available from open to close, and possibly serve one or two varieties of cupcakes all day too.
Great Cakes Don’t Come Quick or Frozen- Why Make-to-Order Cakes are The Best
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on May 3, 2011
There are lots of well known, great, successful cake companies out there. Most seem to have a quality product.
There are a couple of things to keep in mind when you are thinking about great cake.
#1- Great cakes take time to make- Plan ahead. Great cakes made from scratch aren’t going to be hanging out on a self waiting for someone to adopt them. Typically, if a cake is the kind of cake that you can walk in an buy, it’s not as fresh as it could be. Sure, it’s convenient, but the quality will undoubtedly be compromised. Fresh cake means that it will be as good as good as the skills of the baker that makes it, but it also means planning ahead to make sure the bakery has time to prepare the cake. This will ensure that you have a freshly made cake when you pick it up.
#2- Most cake companies that are producing a large number of cakes will bake off the cakes ahead of time (not the frosting) and freeze them. Although this may help the bakery to produce the cake more easily and rapidly, this method can dry out a cake and give it some off flavors. Seek out a bakery or cakery that doesn’t freeze the cake ahead off time, or if they do, make sure that they use some kind vaccuum packaging with a high quality material that will lock in moisture .
Stick with these 2 very basic rules of thumb and you’ll always get a cake that is as good as the baker can make.
There’s a New Social Network in Town: ButtersBook… This Time it’s all about Food & Drink
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on May 2, 2011
ButtersBook.com entered the Social Network scene 2 week ago, but this time it’s all about Food and Drink. The creator says that it was time for a new social network, one that is dedicated to just that.
ButtersBook is designed to be simple, but flexible enough to allow users to discuss and share all they love and know about food and drink. The cost is free, like most social networks. Users can upload their own profile picture and there is a special email address assigned to each user so that a photo of a dish, a beer, wine, cocktail, dessert, etc. can be emailed to your account. Users can then rank the food or drink, say if they “liked” it, allow others to do the same, and then discuss the food or drink item.
Users are allowed to “friend” each other, as seen on other sites too.
There are even login abilities using your existing Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, or Google accounts after establishing a ButtersBook account, as long as the email address that you use at ButtersBook matches the email at Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, or Google.
Updates are happening everyday and there are plans for a mobile device platform. The site is already functional on the Ipad. ButtersBook has also registered a Facebook account (www.facebook.com/buttersbook) and a Twitter account (www.twitter.com/buttersbook) in hopes of finding social networking foodies that would like a social networking site that is dedicated to just food and drink.
Foodies, food lovers, food critics, food writers, food bloggers, restaurants, bars, chefs, brew masters, wine makers, bakers, and anyone or any business in the food and drink industries are encouraged to join as either individuals or as a business.
Several well known chefs, restaurants, and food writers have already joined, as well as the Los Angeles based film company known as Generation Awesome, under their short skit series called ‘The Bartender Hates You”.
A link to join the has been provided below.
See you at the ‘Book!
Ben Leubsdorf writes of Butter’s Fine Food and Wine in “A Downtown Wedding”
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on May 1, 2011
Ben Leubsdorf, a writer for the Concord Monitor, wrote an article published in the Saturday April 30, 2011 edition entitled “A Downtown Wedding”. The story reflects on a couples travels around downtown Concord, NH as part of their wedding. The story mentions that the couple would have their photo taken with Tallulah, the iconic life size resin Holstein-like dairy cow in Butter’s Fine Food and Wine’s bay shop window, and that they had their cake made at Butter’s Fine Food and Wine.
To read the full article: CLICK HERE
To See What Kinds of Cakes Butter’s offers for Weddings: CLICK HERE
WMUR Channel 9′s Sean McDonald Interviews Butter’s Fine Food and Wine about The Ultimate ‘Cheese’ Cake
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on May 1, 2011
On April 15 WMUR Channel 9′s Sean McDonald Interviewed Chef Kristy Stephens Ammann about Butter’s Fine Food and Wine’s Ultimate Couture ‘Cheese’ Cake!
To See the Whole Video Interview: CLICK HERE
To Order The Ultimate Couture Cheese Cake: CLICK HERE
Boston Globe Calls Butter’s Fine Food & Wine ‘A Top Cheese Shop in New England’
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on May 1, 2011
In an article written by the Boston Globe’s Travel Section correspondent writer Victoria Abbott Riccardi (See Boston Globe’s Travel Section April 24th, 2011), Butter’s Fine Food and Wine was noted as one of New England’s top cheese shops.
Victoria wrote, “Here are some of New England’s top cheese shops — places where the owners buy the best domestic and imported cheeses, age each one to perfection, and then, after offering plenty of tastes, cut and wrap your selections, complete with tips on how best to enjoy them.”
Along with the likes of Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge, MA, Wasik’s The Cheese Shop in Wellesley, MA, Rubiner’s Cheesemongers & Grocers in Barrington, MA, Butter’s Fine Food and Wine in Concord, NH is now in the company of the most elite cheese shops, not only in New England, but in the country.
If you would like to read the complete Boston Globe article, Click Here.
Butter’s Fine Food and Wine has also been noted as one of the best cheese shops and best wine shops by the Hippo Press readers. New Hampshire Magazine has noted Butter’s Fine Food and Wine for the best Gourmet Sandwiches in 2010 and Best Gourmet Cakes 2009. The whisper rumor is that New Hampshire Magazine’s readers have picked Butter’s Fine Food and Wine as the best wine shop in New Hampshire, but the official word has not been received yet.
Finally, JOIN BUTTERSBOOK, The Food & Drink Social Network… Eat, Drink, Share! Click Here
Butter’s Fine Food and Wine’s Photo Contest: www.ButtersLense.com
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on March 28, 2011
This is the 1st Annual Butter’s Fine Food and Wine’s “Butter’s Lense” Photo Contest!
Rules:
All photos must be submitted by December 31, 2011 to be eligible.
There will be one winner. Photos will be posted on the Butter’s Lense Album Site (www.ButtersLense.com) and in a Butter’s Fine Food and Wine Facebook Album (www.Facebook.com/ButtersFineFood.com) as they are submitted.
Judging and Winners will be annouced on January 31, 2012.
Selection of the winning photo is completely subjective and based on the judges preferences.
Special consideration will be given to photos that incorporate the Butter’s Logo (seen above) naturally, meaning not digitally embedded, into the picture without destroying the integrity of the picuture.
Special consideration will also be given to photos that incorporate the words, “Butter’s Fine Food” naturally, meaning not digitally embedded, into the picture without destroying the integrity of the picuture.
Good Luck! Spread the word!
WIN $300 for pictures that you’d gladly share for FREE!
Whether you are traveling over seas, hiking a mountain, or cruising a farmers market, we like to think of Butter’s Lense as a place to share those moments with the world.
Why?: We’re curious as to where our fans and customers go when they aren’t in our store.
WIN $300 for pictures that you’d gladly share for FREE!
Whether you are traveling over seas, hiking a mountain, or cruising a farmers market, we like to think of Butter’s Lense as a place to share those moments with the world.
Why?: We’re curious as to where our fans and customers go when they aren’t in our store.
Hippo Press Reader’s Poll: Butter’s Deemed Best Cheese Shop and Best Wine Shop- Concord, NH (3 Years Running)
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on March 26, 2011
The results are in!
Butter’s Fine Food and Wine was voted Best Cheese Shop in Concord, NH for 2011 and Best Wine Shop 2011 too by the Hippo Press Readers!
Click Here to see all the results: http://www.hippopress.com/news-and-features
Thank you to everyone that voted!
Here are the results from previous years:
http://archives.hippopress.com/100318/CVR.html 2010
http://archives.hippopress.com/090319/cover.html 2009
http://archives.hippopress.com/080320/cover.html 2008 Best Cheese Shop
Check out our revamped online Shopping Site: www.shop.ButtersFineFood.com
Whisky Stones for Scotch and Whiskey Stones for Bourbon
Posted By Butters Fine Food & Wine on February 22, 2011
Butter’s Fine Food and Wine recently started carrying a new product called Whiskey Disks from Hammerstone. Here’s the description from www.Shop.ButtersFineFood.com (Butter’s online shopping site):
“Our whisky stones, (aka Whiskey Disks) are an all-natural, organic, uniquely New Hampshire product that will cool your Scotch whisky, 
Bourbon whiskey, white wine, or vodka without changing the flavor of your drink. There is no dilution from melting ice. Your drink will taste the same from top to bottom. The first sip will be as good as the last, and will never taste watered down (unless you intend it to be that way). Dilute your drink on your terms, with water. Ice NOT included, or needed anymore.
This is a must have product for the sophisticated spirits lover. It is ideal for the passionate perfectionist Scotch or Bourbon drinker. These stones are only found at the finest drinking establishments, and should be integrated into your home bar. It’s pratically out of J.Peterman catalog.
Chill a dram of your favorite liquor to approximately 50 degress Farenheit. Simply freeze the stones and add one to your next drink.
Made of 100% Natural Soapstone. Will not scratch glassware. Imparts no odor or flavor. Dishwasher safe. Cotton muslin storage pouch included. Handcrafted by Stone Masons in Chocorua, New Hampshire. Stones measure 1.75″W x .75″H, the perfect size for the perfect Scotch or Bourbon glass.”
The stones are available for sale online at : http://www.shop.buttersfinefood.com/Whiskey-Disks-by-Hammerstones-whiskystones.htm
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