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Titan Farms Peaches Available in Carolina Beauty Gift Boxes

Titan Farms Carolina Beauty peaches gift boxes are back for the third season for $37, which includes 13 hand-picked peaches with a recipe book delivered straight to customers doors. Orders can be placed through Aug. 8 – August being National Peach Month.
But you don’t have to wait until August – National Peach Ice Cream Day is July 17 and National Peach Daiquiri Day is July 19.

These peaches are grown in the sunny fields of Titan Farms in Ridge Spring, S.C.These peaches are specially selected in the field and packed by hand. With soft, delicate fuzz on the skin and tender, juicy flesh, this is how a peach should taste.

Just over 20 years ago, a husband-and-wife duo uprooted their family and set out on a mission to provide South Carolina with the highest quality peaches possible. They are now successfully the largest growers on the East Coast with about 6,200 acres of sunny fields filled with peach trees.Tune in to the “VeryVera Show” on July 16 to see the Carolina Beauty peaches featured in several recipes.

Titan Farms is the premier grower, packer, and shipper of more than 3 million boxes of fresh peaches, broccoli and bell peppers annually. Titan Farms recognizes the importance of sustainable agriculture practices and uses them to benefit America’s consumers and to protect our country’s precious natural resources.

The team at Titan Farms has an extraordinary commitment to providing only the safest, highest-quality produce for customers. Titan Farms brings modern farming and old fashion values together to put the highest-quality fruits and vegetables on your table.

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SpartanNash Corporate HQ Prioritizes People, Fun

Food solutions company SpartanNash celebrated the re-opening of its Grand Rapids, Mich.-based corporate headquarters, which was reimagined and renovated to inspire creativity and meet the evolving needs of its associates.

Hundreds of SpartanNash associates work out of the Grand Rapids Service Center. The newly renovated building is also adjacent to SpartanNash’s Grand Rapids Distribution Center, the company’s largest distribution center.

Every aspect of the renovation project was inspired by the company’s People First culture and guided by key principles to transform, energize, amplify and modernize working spaces. The result is open spaces for collaboration, an exciting color palette, the use of increased natural and LED lighting and agile workspaces with stylish furniture and technology.

“This beautiful new space is a great example of SpartanNash’s commitment to our Associates,” President and CEO Tony Sarsam said. “By offering bright, collaborative spaces for our teams to work together after years apart, we can celebrate a fresh start with an environment where people feel empowered to create winning work and innovative solutions. By putting our associates’ experience at the forefront of this redesign, we’re doubling down on SpartanNash’s most important investment: our people.”

To bring the company’s core behavior of We Have Fun to life and support a culture where associates look forward to coming into the office, the renovated space includes a Starbucks location, expanded café and variety of entertainment spaces including games for associates. All of these spaces were designed and modernized to attract and retain top talent, inspire creativity and promote a team environment.

Before becoming SpartanNash, Spartan Stores established a presence in Grand Rapids as far back as 1918 and has continued to expand and reinvest in the community. The current corporate headquarters was constructed in 1976.

“Our history in West Michigan traces back more than 100 years and it has been an honor to continue to deepen our roots and grow as a part of this community as we redefine what the new SpartanNash looks like when we move toward the future,” Sarsam said.

The headquarters hosts departments and leadership focused on retail operations, supply chain, strategy, marketing, communications, legal, customer support, HR, IT and more. It serves as the home base to those who support frontline associates in retail stores and distribution centers as they serve SpartanNash independent customers and in-store guests.

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Chile Hosts Americas Selection of World Pastry Cup

Team Canada

The Americas Selection of the World Pastry Cup will be held for the first time in Chile at the Metropolitan Santiago, managed by competition organizer GL Events, on July 13.

During the internationally renowned competition in the world of pastry, the candidates will have to convince a jury of prestigious chefs, including Gustavo Sáez, honorary president of this edition. Named best pastry chef of 2016 by the World’s 50 Best Restaurant in Latin America, he is also the winner of the Copa Maya in 2018, which he won alongside the Chilean team.

The top three nations will qualify to take part in the grand Finale, which will be held at Sirha Lyon in Lyon, France, in January.

The eight teams, each composed of two candidates and a coach, will compete in a five-hour technical competition, during which they will have to create two frozen desserts, 12 frozen lollipops, seven restaurant-style desserts and two 145 cm artistic pieces (one in sugar and one in chocolate).

New for the 2021 grand Finale, the restaurant dessert will be included in the tasting rounds of the continental selections. The presentation, composition and service is up to the candidates, who will be judged by a jury of renowned pastry chefs and cooks, composed specifically for this event.

To honor finger food, the candidates will also have to make frozen lollipops, in the shape, color and composition of their choice.

Through the two artistic pieces and fruit entremets, the teams will have to show their technical skills and creativity to sublimate the products and express all the sensitivities of pastry-making.

Teams:

Argentina
Chocolate Candidate: Matías Dragún, Dragún Gelato (Miami, USA)
Sugar Candidate: Lucas Carballo, Escuela de Pastelería Profesional (Buenos Aires)
Jury: Néstor Reggiani, La Nueva Muguet (Buenos Aires)

Team Brazil

Brazil
Chocolate Candidate: Alessandro Lira, Harald Chocolates (Santana de Parnaíba)
Sugar Candidate: Marcia Garbin, Gelato Boutique (São Paulo)
Jury: Lucas Corazza, Queen Bee (Curitiba)

Canada
Chocolate Candidate: Alexandrine Grégoire-Guindon, Institut de Tourisme et d’Hôtellerie du Québec (Montreal)
Sugar Candidate: Patrick Bouilly, Institut de Tourisme et d’Hôtellerie du Québec (Montreal)
Jury: Daniel Hinojosa García, Institut de Tourisme et d’Hôtellerie du Québec (Montreal)

Team Chile

Chile
Chocolate Candidate: Alejandro Espinoza, Xoc Chocolate Shop (Santiago)
Sugar Candidate: Javiera Villegas,  StudioPas Academy (Santiago)
Jury: Camila García Elizalde, StudioPas Academy (Santiago)

Colombia
Chocolate Candidate: Carlos de Ávila, Hôtel Marriott (Bogota)
Sugar Candidate: Daniel Martínez Cerón, Mazama Artesanos del Dulce (Medellin)
Jury: Laura Mójica Rodriguez, DLK S.A.S (Bogota)

Ecuador
Chocolate Candidate: Geovanny Puzma
Sugar Candidate: Hugo Maldonado
Jury: Christian Flores, Pastelería Flores (Quito)

Mexico
Chocolate Candidate: Gerardo Reyes Aguilar, Tout Chocolat (Mexico City)
Sugar Candidate: Anahí Martínez, Tout Chocolat (Mexico City)
Jury: Osvaldo Ortega, Tout Chocolat (Mexico City)

United States of America
Chocolate Candidate: Julie Eslinger, Country Club at Castle Pine (Castle Rock, Colo.)
Sugar Candidate: Jordan Snider, The Sanctuary Hotel (Kiawah Island, S.C.)
Jury: Christophe Feyt, Hilton Anatole Hotel (Dallas)

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