Dig in! Our Favorite New Foods Around the Web
The Joy of Sacks
Sometimes
mothers are the mother of invention. Three of them, appalled by their families' plastic sandwich bag use (and the country's—estimated at more than 20 million a day), created LunchSkins, cheerful, reusable, dishwasher-safe sandwich and snack sacks.
$8, 3GreenMoms, LunchSkins.com
Stone Cold
Enjoy your drinks on the rocks—literally—by using cubes of pure soapstone in place of drink-diluting ice in scotch or bourbon. Leave them in the freezer for three hours, and they'll gently chill your favorite libation.
$20 for nine, Teroforma, Teroforma.com
Just Add Milk
What's for breakfast? You tell us. At Me & Goji, you can create customized cereal online from 50+ ingredients, like granola, pecans, and blueberries. Click and drag them into a virtual bowl; a nutrition "label" instantly tallies the benefits. A recyclable canister of your signature cereal will arrive within a week.
$5 for 21 ounces, Me & Goji, MeAndGoji.com
Chill Out
Ice cream and sorbet in flavors like strawberry daiquiri and crème de mint chip taste as sweet as childhood sundaes, but with a welcome—and very adult—twist.
$9.50, Silver Moon Desserts, SilverMoonDesserts.com
License to Dill
Rick's Picks rose to fame using unexpected ingredients (smoked paprika, wasabi, orange juice) in their pickled products, but this new garlic dill is pure nostalgia: tangy, snappy, well-balanced—and low in sodium.
$8, Rick's Picks NYC, RicksPicksNYC.com
Photo: Ben Goldstein/Studio D
Cherry good
We took a sip—then went back for seconds, thirds, and fourths. This potent elixir from Michigan contains the antioxidant-rich juice of pure, tart cherries. And with no apple or grape filler, it's 100 percent good stuff.
$3.50, Verry Cherre, available at grocery stores
Hot Slaw
In traditional Korean culture, a bride adopts her mother-in-law's recipe for kimchi—think spicy, garlicky sauerkraut. Lauryn Chun acknowledges that tradition with the name she gave her version of this probiotic-rich condiment.
$20 for two jars, Foodzie, Foodzie.com
Pine Away
Drizzle mugolio, a pinecone-bud syrup from Italy, over soft, mild cheeses or thick Greek yogurt; it adds mysterious herbal and woodsy notes that bring out the rich dairy flavors, plus a touch of honeyed sweetness.
$24, Market Hall Foods, MarketHallFoods.com
From the
April 2010 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
