Join the POP Club and discover the Power of Produce!
Week 15: Sunday September 9 – This week our POP Kids will be watching and participating in a cooking demo by ours truly, Karen Curtis. We will be making tomato salsa and learning about tomatoes.
For the Two Bite Club we will be tasting different types of tomatoes!
Drop in anytime during market hours from 9am – 1pm to sign up and participate in the POP Club!
The POP Club is a farmers market-based kids program. Children (ages 5 – 12 years old) will learn about fruits and vegetables, local food systems and healthy food preparation through fun activities.
Each week children will earn a $3 market token to use towards any fruit or vegetable of their choice.
There is no cost to participate. Sign up at the POP tent this Sunday! The POP Club runs every Sunday until the end of October.
While on a trip to San Fransisco for the Fancy Food Show, Fume-eh Gourmet Foods owners Paula and Chris Beall fell in love with smoked olives but couldn’t find any to sell in their much beloved Port Moody store, Eden West.
After searching high and low for them so we could sell them at Eden West we gave up and bought a smoker so that we could make our own. We spent months perfecting the technique, type of smoke, brine etc and finally came up with a winning combination. We have since developed our Smoked Olive Tapenade which is outselling everything else.
Fume-eh Gourmet Foods smoked olives have brought fine dining right to the feet of customers and Paula says continuing to frequent markets is important to them as a growing company.
Developing a new brand takes a long time and staying in touch with your customers is a very important part of that. We love seeing people try our products for the first time and getting their feedback.
Paula says their olives are smoked at a low temperature with milder wood smoke to avoid bitterness in the olives. Their variety of flavours lead to a wide range of dish options.
The buttery nature of the Castelvetrano olives along with the sharpness from the smoke bring a different depth of flavour to so many different dishes. Why not add some to a Puttanesca? Or throw the tapenade on some Arctic Cod, yum! The possibilities are endless.
The name Fume-eh has more of a story than meets the eye. After a night of enjoying some wine and endless smoked olives, Paula says her and Chris creatively stumbled on the name “Fume-eh.”
Well ‘fume’ is smoke in French and ‘eh’ is of course very Canadian as our we so voila!
Inspired by all things food, Paula and Chris have plans to grow their product line over the winter season.
As for deciding what flavours we just try and try again until we are thoroughly thrilled by the end product.
After recently hiring a brand ambassador Paula says, she and Chris hope to continue to create high quality products and continue to get the word out about their company. Be sure to visit the market to keep up to date with their new products!
While on a trip to San Fransisco for the