The Absolute Best Butter For Every Occasion, After Taste-Testing, Cooking And Baking With 32 Kinds. Definitely need to get my hands of some Le Beurre Bordier at some point. But I’m really happy with Ploughgate’s salted butter. 🤤
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Discussion 8 comments
Are we giving Forbes contributors credit?
I think I missed something — I'm not sure what you're asking here.
I guess I’m under the impression that Forbes has effectively turned itself into a pay to play content mill - and not to say that there can’t be useful information there, as is likely the case with the butter article - but I suppose based on prior reading, I’m wary.
On the topic of the article - the green-packaged NZ-sourced butter at Costco is both great on toast and my preferred baking ingredient for pie crusts, cookies and the like. They changed their “standard” Costco butter formulation with little fanfare a few years back and my crusts went from flaky and tasty to blah. Delighted to try out the green stuff to much better results.
Yes, that has been my impression of Forbes as well. I've seen former managers trying to set up their personal consulting brands get "published" there.
That said, I'm passionate about butter and interested in this article. :)
As a butter afficionado I enjoyed first hearing about Le Beurre Bordier via this story of Locavore trying to track it down in New York
I tried to follow her steps this afternoon on a trip into Manhattan and while I believe I found the cold case she refers to, it was completely empty and the fromagier had no idea what I was talking about :(
Notably missing — and impossible to test — are your local dairy farm butters. Maybe I'm just blessed by being in the midwest, but my local grocery carries three different locally-made butters, and my local CSA has more. As good as Le Beurre Bordier certainly is, it's tough to beat something made within 20 miles of your house.
On my trip to France over the summer I froze some butter from Normandy as well as the St Agur spread that is unavailable in the states - all only to be used sparingly on special ocassions, but oh is it all so wonderfully good.
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