Art Bars

The Gourmet Fusion store, selling both kitchen and food items, has always sold eco-friendly products for the home such as Mobi Bags, natural bamboo products by Bamboo 54 and Shiraleah, and Fair Trade products by Zen-Zen Home, and we are planning to expand our lines of natural and organic foods in the store throughout 2008.

When I attended the Winter Fancy Food Show in San Diego last January, I was interested to learn that organic and natural food products now account for 15% of all specialty foods sold in stores. It is encouraging to know that food producers are becoming increasingly aware of the benefits that natural and organic products can have for both consumers and producers.

One such company whose products Gourmet Fusion carry, is Ithaca Fine Chocolates. This Fair Trade company produces great tasting Swiss chocolate, in a variety of flavors, and all ingredients used in the making of the chocolate are certified organic. Not only is the chocolate is out of this world, you get an art reproduction inside each bar, and a portion of the proceeds from the sale of this chocolate are donated to art education programs. Now how cool is that?