{"id":203,"date":"2007-07-04T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-04T09:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=203"},"modified":"2007-07-04T09:01:16","modified_gmt":"2007-07-04T09:01:16","slug":"food-for-though-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-for-though-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Food For Thought &#8211; Bringing Flatbreads to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/images\/2007\/07\/12\/img_0152.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"266\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Img_0152\" title=\"Img_0152\" src=\"\/images\/2007-small\/07\/12\/img_0152.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> Hi everyone&#8230;this week on Food For Thought I take you to a factory north of Toronto where they specialize in making naan, an East Indian style flatbread. The company is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fgfbrands.com\/\">FGF Brands<\/a>, which stands for Functional Gourmet Foods.&nbsp; &nbsp;In Canada you will find their flatbread products in Loblaws and Real Canadian Superstore outlets, with further availability described on the company website.&nbsp; Jim White, a former Toronto Star food columnist and inventor of many President&#8217;s Choice products, teamed up with experienced commercial baker Sam Ajmera to create a production process that could manufacture naan on a large scale, but have the product remain very authentic.&nbsp; You can see some of the naan coming out of &#8216;the world&#8217;s largest tandoor&#8217; oven, according to Sam, in the photo at left.&nbsp; I couldn&#8217;t take pictures of any other parts of the oven&#8230;the technology is a closely-guarded secret.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/2007\/07\/12\/img_0156.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Img_0156\" title=\"Img_0156\" src=\"\/images\/2007-small\/07\/12\/img_0156.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> FGF Brands is also making muffins for Starbucks now, with no added preservatives or artificial ingredients.&nbsp; They can produce thousands of muffins in a day, again in a special oven and cooling rack.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/images\/2007\/07\/12\/img_0164.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"200\" height=\"150\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Img_0164\" title=\"Img_0164\" src=\"\/images\/2007-small\/07\/12\/img_0164.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px; float: left;\" \/><\/a> Here is a naan all tricked out as a pizza!&nbsp; Red onion, tomato, fresh basil, mozzarella, couldn&#8217;t ask for much more.&nbsp; You can find recipes like this on the FGF Brands <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fgfbrands.com\/\">website<\/a>.&nbsp; To listen to my story, just click to <a href=\"\/files\/fft-jul04-07.mp3\">play<\/a> the 5 minute documentary in MP3 format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone&#8230;this week on Food For Thought I take you to a factory north of Toronto where they specialize in making naan, an East Indian style flatbread. The company is called FGF Brands, which stands for Functional Gourmet Foods.&nbsp; &nbsp;In &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/food-for-though-9\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}