Maine Crisp Company Wins sofi in Cracker Category
By Lorrie Baumann
The Maine Crisp Company’s Cranberry Almond Crisps earned a bronze sofi Award this year in their creator’s first entry into the cracker category for the Specialty Food Association’s annual competition honoring innovative specialty foods. The Cranberry Almond Crisps are a creation of Karen Getz, The Maine Crisp Company co-Owner and Founder, who started the company a couple of years ago in her home kitchen in Waterville, Maine, a small community in the center of the state that’s also the home of Colby College.
Just last year, Getz moved her company into a commercial kitchen and designed new packaging. Her Maine Crisps are now in about 75 stores across New England and in New York, and she has two employees helping her make her crisps every day.
Getz’s intention from the beginning has been to make products that showcase local ingredients from Maine. “It was the ingredients first,” she said.”I want to make something with blueberries and buckwheat.”
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Getz, whose background includes a stint as a cheesemaker working with raw cow milk cheeses – she’s won two awards from the American Cheese Society – was particularly interested in creating a cracker that would pair well with a variety of cheeses, and with her Cranberry Almond Crisps, she feels like she’s done just that, with flavors that complement dairy and a texture that stands up under the cheese without dominating the consumer’s bite. The Cranberry Almond Crisps won the sofi Award in the cracker category rather than the category for gluten-free products – demonstrating that they’re good enough to hold their own in comparison with other crackers made with wheat and containing gluten, Getz said.
The Cranberry Almond Crisps, like her other two varieties, Blueberry Walnut Crisps and Cinnamon Maple Crisps – are made with buckwheat grown in Maine. Naturally gluten free, buckwheat isn’t a true grain, even though it’s used as a grain in cooking and baking. It’s actually a seed related to rhubarb that’s high in protein and fiber. The Blueberry Walnut Crisps are made with wild blueberries from Maine, and the Cinnamon Maple Crisps are made with real maple syrup.
A 4-ounce box of the Maine Crisp Company’s Cranberry Almond Crisps retails for $7.99. For more information, call 207.213.9296 or visit www.themainecrispcompany.com.