Nourish - Artisans

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Let's start at the very beginning. Delivering Cedarbrook's culinary vision of presenting Copperleaf Restaurant diners and Cedarbrook Lodge banquet and catering social and business guests the highly valued farm-to-table experience, means beginning at the source. The farm. The ranch. The stream.

It is here where the passion for the product itself – as it grows, as it is cultivated, as it is fed, as it is nurtured – first matters. As well as the environment in which it matures under the watchful and caring eyes of equally responsible, equally dedicated and devoted resource partners.

Small local Washington state farms, artisans, ranchers and fishermen are carefully chosen for their commitment to offer to Cedarbrook Lodge hand-selected superior products direct from their fields, trees, streams or pastures. No middle man.

Cedarbrook's food and beverage vendor partners are similarly quality-driven devotees of responsible, sustainable, fair-trade practices. The lodge's culinary team does business only with those who value as highly as do they – food's tradition and its future.

Today's diners live in an age where the majority of hotel restaurant and banquet operations focus on high productivity and low food cost (often resulting in the purchase of mass-produced, packaged, stored, shipped and dare we say often frozen food items). At Cedarbrook, the food and beverage team provides quality products with thoughtful preparation and appealing presentation. And doing so to the delight of the diners while being socially responsible yet fiscally wise.

Read how just a few of Cedarbrook's vendors share and support the overall food and beverage vision.

Providing Cedarbrook several of its signature cheese and dairy products is the Estrella Family Creamery. This family-owned and operated grass-based dairy makes hand-crafted cheeses with raw cow and goat milk from animals grazed in organically maintained pastures.
The best chestnuts are sold directly from the southwest Washington state orchards of Allen Creek Farm to Cedarbrook Lodge. The farm grows and processes its products under the strict regulations of the Department of Agriculture and Washington state standards. Chestnuts are harvested every day and refrigerated immediately to preserve freshness.
Snake River Farms is Cedarbrook's source for 100% purebred Berkshire pork and American Kurobuta pork. Their promise is "no extender, no sodium and no water are ever added to our fresh pork products." The products are leaner, darker in color, richer in flavor and have beautiful marbling effects. When prepared, diners taste the succulent, juicy difference.
On 300 acres of organic farmland at Full Circle Farm, they grow, source and provide the freshest and most flavorful produce (150 varieties of vegetables, fruits and herbs). Sustainable practices are the cornerstone of their operations. They believe in the value of nurturing the land and community . . . You haven’t lived 'til you've savored their organically-grown red, yellow and Chioggia baby beets!
Naturally flavorful and tender beef is a must at any Cedarbrook table. Painted Hills Natural Beef raises its beef with no added hormones, no antibiotics and a 100% vegetarian diet. Their cattle are never fed animal by-products. "This isn't just a job; it's our way of life." Cedarbrook's support of this independent rancher and the ranching traditions is the cornerstone of responsible, sustainable, community-minded practices.
Who else, you ask? Well, Cedarbrook purchases the highest quality gourmet cured meats and other traditional Italian foods from Salumi, located in the heart of Seattle’s historic Pioneer Square. Their craftsmen combine state of the art equipment with Old World techniques to preserve the hand-made traditions of the Mediterranean.
Then there's the Malleys, a family business based in Seattle and is the source of Cedarbrook's albacore tuna, which is trolled in the North Pacific.
The local area's Wild Wheat Bakery is where the freshly-baked artisan rolls and breads are made.
And Mad Hatcher Farm is run by Bernie Nash, who has been farming his entire life in Eastern Washington, specifically Ephrata. Bernie works with Cedarbrook to raise squab, poussin, chicken, rabbit and quail.
Need we say more than the first step in creating Cedarbrook's hot chocolate is melting Seattle's Theo Chocolate's organic, sustainable chocolate? Theo Chocolate is the only organic, fair-trade, bean-to-bar chocolate factory in the United States!