Our beginnings
Our
Thierry grew up in the French countryside, where Sundays were for mushroom forays, the cousins raised ducks and grand-mère churned the week’s milk into butter. When an animal was slaughtered, every part was turned into something wholesome to eat.
Seasonal produce dictated everyday menus. Little kids learned to harvest and preserve foods from forest, farm and sea. Spread out on rustic family tables, local, unadulterated ingredients yielded delicious family feasts.
Starting at Local Farmers Markets
From Thiery's fond memories as a child mushroom hunting in the French countryside, we got inspired to search for wild mushrooms in New York City with not much luck. With a roll of quarters and an unreliable Chevette, we were able to escape the city to source and later distribute wild mushrooms. We grew Aux Délices des Bois into a global, vertically integrated one-stop shop for everything truffle, mushroom, and natural harvests.
Black Truffle Butter Was Born
Inspired by his thrifty French grand-mère, Thierry folded truffle scraps and shavings into rich, high-fat European-style butter to preserve for later. Black Truffle Butter was born, turning a distribution business into a retail and wholesale butter business. Today, our award-winning compound butters bring comforting classics, daring flavors, and a little celebration to every table.
A Trio of Culinary Fats
Somewhere along the line, we began packaging Duck Fat. Since no self-respecting Frenchman would not have duck fat in the pantry, we figured Americans would follow suit. The result? A trio of culinary fats to cover our nation’s enormous appetite for forthright, natural, time-tested ingredients.
An Invitation
Join Us at Our
We invite you to stock the pantry with jars of luscious animal fats and the freezer with a variety of finishing butters. Voilà! You have the start of a crispy or seared protein, and the finishing touch of melty, 82% fat flavored butter.
Let us share with you our passion for bold flavors, superb mouthfeel and simple recipe hacks. No fat is perfect, but ours are healthy, natural, and unadulterated. Please play with all our flavors – from homey to spicy to elegant – to join us at our global table.
With love,
Everyone Loves a
We won gold at the Fancy Food sofi awards for our Black Truffle Butter in 2021!
“The idea of this butter spread on a juicy, hot steak rocked our worlds. It was super-creamy, whipped with finely minced truffles and truffle oil, leaving it rich but still airy and fresh-tasting. How did we ever live without Black Truffle Butter? The smiling man holding the gold statue is Thierry Farges. He won this year’s Outstanding New Product award, a coveted honor in the specialty food trade industry…. A well-deserved win.”
– Jennifer Middleton Richards
Best Product of the Year, 2008
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