At Perfect Flavor, we’re huge proponents of the Local Food Movement.  In fact, we were long before it became popular.

After all, we did base an entire business around supporting local farmers and educating our community about the necessity to buy healthful, local products from real live farmers!  At Perfect Flavor, we focused on making gourmet ice cream out of real milk that we picked up raw from a local dairy farm in Waynesboro, VA, pasteurized ourselves, and made into ice cream (in the process cracking 330 eggs per batch and mixing in a healthy amount of organic sugar to complement our incredibly tasting cream and milk).

A year after launching our ice cream line, we began experimenting with soft cheeses like ricotta, creme fraiche, mascarpone, mozzarella and yogurt, and in March of 2009 began selling our cheeses all over central VA.  Since March, we have succeeded in marketing and selling our products throughout Virginia, and have been achieving our biggest goals of all: educating the public about the importance of local food and local dairy and also raising awareness of how healthy REAL food can be.

This week, Perfect Flavor closes down production to make way for the newest member of the Steele clan, our baby due in May.  While I am sad to put production on hold, I am ecstatic to throw myself full time into writing as much as possible to all of my faithful fans and supporters in the hopes that through this series of blogs I can reach even more consumers curious as to how they can make the move toward a healthier and happier lifestyle.

In the “Local Food” section I will highlight farms that I visit, offer interviews with the farmers themselves, post suggestions as to where to find local food in your area, and also broadly keep all of my readers updated on local food current events, conferences, etc.

Please prompt me with your questions and comments!  I will do my best to bring any topic forward for discussion.

Here’s to healthy eating!