Mar 24, 2008
Gourmet baby food will be sampled at Palmer’s
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A tasting for Petite Palate, a line of high-end, gourmet, organic baby food, will be held from 11 to 2 on Friday at Palmer’s Market in Darien.
Co-founders Lisa Beels and Christine Naylor, a Rowayton resident, recently debuted their creation, which is currently being sold at both Palmer’s Market and Rowayton Market.
“If your baby’s food doesn’t come from your kitchen, it should come from ours,” said Beels and Naylor. “We believe that babies should be nourished with delicious, wholesome food just like their parents, and we are making that possible and available.”
Petite Palate’s premier line is filled with six recipes made with fruits, vegetables, and grains (meats to be launched in late 2008), which includes Spinach Potato Puree, Apple Pear Blend, Puree of Yams, Banana Peach Blend, Lentil Trio and Split Pea Stew.
Petite Palate’s meals are flash frozen immediately after they are prepared, which allows food to maintain its own nutritional content while sustaining the shelf life (frozen) up to one year. In addition, each Petite Palate recipe is packaged in an individual, 4-ounce paper cup, which makes heating the food effortless and safe.
Naylor, a graduate of the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, and Beels, a graduate of Le Cordon Blue in London, discovered their mutual passion for organic food and parenting over play dates with their infant sons. After sharing stories about creating their own “home-grown” baby food and exchanging recipes, friends caught on, and the response was overwhelming. Their homemade baby food mixtures were soon being gifted at baby showers, christenings and birthday parties, thus beginning the development of Petite Palate.
Petite Palate is also available at Zabar’s and Grace’s Marketplace in New York City and Giant Food Markets in New York.
© Copyright 2008 by Hersam Acorn Newspapers
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