"It's always been my dream to become a condiment man, and I feel like I'm taking the steps necessary, at this point, to reach that goal". Meet Michael Kurtz, the founder and completely obsessed "condiment man" behind Mike's Hot Honey, a small-batch spicy pepper infused honey company based in Long Island City, Queens.
On Saturday mornings, locals browse the Tay Ho weekend market (Ngo 67 To Ngoc Van) for small-batch products such as honey hand-pressed by tribes in the northern province of Ha Giang and essential oils from natural perfumer Dame Clemence; there's even a neighbourhood mix of jasmine and coriander called Les Nuits de Tay Ho.
They also carry locally-sourced, small-batch sauces, jellies and honey.
Among the fastest-growing segments of granola at Whole Foods are the artisanal, small-batch varieties, like Milk & Honey and Nature's Path Love Crunch.
Distillers are expanding their market with premium small-batch and single-barrel products, along with flavor infusions like honey, cherry and spice.
Ryan LeBrun's love of honey bees is emphatic, a necessary vice for his post at Bee Local, where LeBrun harvests Oregon's only single-origin honey, a career he began nearly six years ago before the honey outfit joined Portland-based Jacobsen Salt Co. Bee Local began as most small-batch businesses do, out of the owner's kitchen.
And small-batch microbrews.
Small-batch mezcal = tongue-loosener?
No one in America was making small-batch soy sauce".
Course Five: Small-batch pasta dressed with overaged feta.
All of the production was small-batch and hand-done.
