Boccalone, a company in Oakland, Calif., that makes artisanal cured meat, has started producing nduja.
— Maria Newman Baltimore City Paper: A visit with a father-and-son team that's making artisanal cider and mead in Maryland.
Journalists were building blacksmith forges and reporting on their success; there were experiments in making artisanal Cheddar cheese.
GRANOLA FOR CHANGE In 2008, two longtime friends, Geoff Gordon and Keith Cooper, started the Providence Granola Project, which provides international refugees with jobs: making artisanal granola.
In Bridgehampton on the South Fork, Art Ludlow, a third-generation potato farmer, switched to making artisanal cheeses and has a herd of dairy cows.
Pioneers in making artisanal goat cheese, they sold the farm about five years ago and returned to living in Manhattan full time.
Meanwhile, it's a total sausage fest at Saveurs de Provence (33-6-61-37-57-83), which makes artheanal varieties from the unlikeliest of sources, including mule, bull and pork mixed with figs.
Now, the new zinfandel partisans, intent on making artisanal wines and realizing the value of this scarce resource, have proved to be far more lucrative customers for the old-vine grapes.
Mr. Bordelet, who used to be the sommelier at Arpège, the Michelin three-star restaurant in Paris, revived an old orchard and began making artisanal ciders combining more than a dozen apple varieties.
"If you think back to the Tom Cruise movie 'Cocktail,' that is what the industry was like when he started," said Alexandre Gabriel, the president and owner of Cognac Ferrand, whose Cognac house in France also makes artisanal spirits, one of which won best new product at last year's Tales of the Cocktail event.
