We Won

Wow! The Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce selected Herbs & Spice as the recipient of the WE award for Best New Product or Service for 2008. What an honor! This is only possible because of you, our valued customers. Thank you for making 2008 the best year yet. The picture below will show you the beautiful award that we received. If you get a chance to come by the store, we will show it to you in person.

What a year end it has been! First Best in Cincinnati, an on-line magazine (see the November 7, 2008 post below). Then one of the 110 Best of Cincinnati picks by Cincinnati Magazine under the category Best Smoked Salts. Finally, to be chosen Best New Product or Service for 2008 by the Chamber, needless to say we are proud but humbled by all of this.

We are in the midst of a great December at the store. Thank you so much for your patronage. Just a quick reminder, after the first of the year, we will begin the Spice of the Month program, right here in the blog. The first five will be; Adobo Seasoning, parika, chives, nutmeg and dill. In addition to telling you about these spices we will also include recipes for you to try them. Some of you that have stopped by the store have mentioned that you would like to submit recipes for some of these spices too. I would love to see that happen. We are working on some ways to recognize and honor you for participating.

Our great staff along with Susan and I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas and/or Happy Hanukkah. Our prayer is for better economic times for 2009.

The Colonel

Chamber News and Go Bearcats

This is the press release from the Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber of Commerce. I thought you might like to see it.

Dear Friends of Herbs & Spice and Everything Nice:

It is our pleasure to inform you that the company has been selected as a finalist for Woman Owned Business of the Year - 25 or Fewer Employees by WE Celebrate, an awards program honoring the best of women in business. Company president Susan Stewart will be recognized at an awards breakfast next Thursday, December 11th, 8am - 10am at the Hyatt Regency hotel in downtown Cincinnati. The company is also featured in today's Business Courier. It would be wonderful if you could join us in honoring Susan, De and their company by attending the WE Celebrate Awards breakfast. Click here to register or call 579-3111 by Monday, December 8. We hope you will join us in honoring this amazing business and its outstanding leader!


Diana Long, SPHRProgram Manager - Women Excel
Cincinnati USA Regional Chamber
300 Carew Tower, 441 Vine Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
dlong@cincinnatichamber.com
513.686.2946


Herbs & Spice is so proud of the UC football team. This has truly been an historic year for them. In their honor we have developed both a red, white, and black salt blend and a red, white, and black peppercorn blend. They are packaged up in a ready to use grinder. Come by and pick up yours for your Orange Bowl party. They are $8.00 each or both for $15.00.





The Colonel

Fox 19 and New Gift Items

I apologize for the late notice, but tomorrow morning I will appear on Fox 19 here in Cincinnati. I should be on sometime between 8:00 and 9:00am. I will be preparing the Colonel's Bourbon Sweet Potatoes.

We also have two new gift items for the holidays. There are two distinctive baskets. The first is our All Bourbon Basket. It contains your choice of one of our three Bourbon Barrel Sorghums, Bourbon Barrel Aged Vanilla Extract, Bourbon Vanilla Sugar, and Bourbon Barrel Smoked Sea Salt.



The second basket is called the Colonel's Favorites. It contains your choice of two of our five herbed vinegars, Herb Shop Cream Cheese mix, your choice of one of our marinades, Grilled Fruit Salad Mix (with the complete recipe), The Colonel's Pork and Poultry Rub, The Colonel's Smokey Rub, The Colonel's Chef's Seasoning Internationale, and The Colonel's Chipotle Spice Blend.




Colonel De Stewart

CincyChic and More

CincyChic is an on-line publication that is targeted at women. The current issue is titled "Spice It Up" and there is a spotlight article on Herbs & Spice and Everything Nice. There is even a picture of Susan & I as well as some great shots of some of our salts. To see the whole magazine simply go to http://cincychic.com/. To go directly to our article go to http://cincychic.com/content/view/1386/1/.

Stop by and catch the new items we have. We have 2 herb calendars, a new Bourbon Vanilla Sugar, and the Colonel's Bayou Blend. The Bayou Blend is the spicest combination we have developed yet. So, if you are into heat, come by and give it a try. If you are thinking of giving a gift pack of spices for the Holidays, you will want to place those orders soon. We get a lot of special Holiday orders and the closer the Holidays get, the harder it is to accomodate your needs. We will have several different pre-packaged gift items available, but if you want a custom gift pack we would ask that you have that order in by December 14th. This will allow us time to complete everyones order.

I look forward to seeing or hearing from everyone soon.

Colonel De Stewart

Mt. Saint Joe and Taste Cincinnati Magazine

Sorry for the late notice, but I will be teaching at Mt. Saint Joseph College's LifeLearn class in Delhi tomorrow afternoon, September 30, 2008. I understand that there are 30 people registered and the room holds 28. This should be interesting. The topic is Salts of the World. I have samples of salts from many countries. We had to reschedule this class because of the unbelievable event of Hurricane Ike as he blew through Kentucky and Ohio. If you haven't been to the store this week, then you haven't seen the 11 new salts that have arrived. When you come into the store be sure and ask to see the salt bricks and salt plates. We will share with you what these are and how you use them.

I would also like to thank Stephen Kidd, Publisher of Taste Magazine Cincinnati. Taste is a magazine published four times a year. It is an excellently writen magazine with great articles and many recipes. The Restaurant Guide in the back of the magazine is amazing. There is even a map to help you locate every restaurant listed. In the Fall 2008 issue you will find my recipe for Chicken Pot Pie in a Sugar Pumpkin.

Colonel De Stewart

Emerging Business for 2008

Thanks to your support Herbs & Spice and Everything Nice was runner up as the Emerging Business for 2008. We took 2nd place to a franchise. Why they were in there is anybodies guess. Oh well. Next year we our goal is to be named Business of the Year. All right, enough back patting.

Many of you have asked for reprints of my columns from PulseDT (formerly the DownTowner). So in and effort to provide you with this information, starting next week, I will begin publishing to the blog both the articles and the recipe(s) that go along with the article. They will not be in the order they were published the first time. I will most likely provide them alphabetically. All of the recipes that were published with the articles will also be included. Additionally, there will be several recipes that have never been published.

We are offering a new product. A good friend of ours, Rob Miller, has developed a great new mustard. Rob is currently hiding out in Pennsylvania. At $5.00 this large jar is a bargain.

Colonel De Stewart

New T-Shirts are in

At last the new Herbs & Spice t-shirts are in. They are black with white lettering. On the front is the Herbs & Spice logo and underneath is our slogan, "Taking the common and making it uncommon." On the back is the winning slogan from our contest. The winning slogan is "Nothing Beats a Good Rub." We got lots of different sizes. The shirts come in small, medium, large, extra large and double extra large. Come and get yours today! At $15.00 we think they are a steal or at least reasonable.

Colonel De Stewart

Welcome To The Herbs & Spice Blog!

Welcome to the new Herbs & Spice and Everything Nice blog.

I've decided to create this blog to replace the e-mail newsletter. This is where to come to learn more about spices and unusual ingredients, find new recipes, find out when we're having tastings and special events, and learn what's new at Herbs & Spice and Everything Nice or Findlay Market.

I highly recommend you subscribe to our blog. You can subscribe in a reader or it can be sent to you via e-mail whenever it's updated (just click one of the icons in the upper right corner above my smiling photo). I'll be offering coupons and specials that will only be posted on the blog. All you'll have to do is print out the page with the coupon on it and bring it in to redeem it.

So as a thank you to all of our loyal customers, print out this first blog and bring it in before August 15, 2008 for 10% off your order of $10.00 or more. Herbs & Spice and Everything Nice Stall #135 513 421 4800

Colonel De Stewart