Quince & Apple

Hello, Foxy!

clare — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:10:18 +0000

Our nifty friend Laurie, the brains and brawn behind the best-named internet boutique ever, has created a gift set featuring our Original Wisconsin Gift Box and an I ♥ Wisconsin T-Shirt, aptly named The Wisco. The site is hellofoxy.com and for the month of March, 20% of all profits go to the Love Harder Fund, an excellent and stylish fundraiser for research on a cure for Multiple Myeloma, a type of cancer. You really can’t go wrong here!

Willy Street Co-op Producer Profile

clare — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:45:20 +0000

We here at Quince and Apple have been co-opers for a long time. When we met, I (Clare) lived at Nottingham Co-op, a 21 person student consortium down by the UW campus, and Matt became a member soon after. His first job out of college was as produce buyer at the Mifflin St. Co-op, and then both Matt and I, inspired by our passion for local food, ended up on the Board of Directors there. Willy St. Co-op, where we’re members, is another venerable Madison institution and now one point in a four-block triangle that includes our house and the Q&A kitchen. We often run to Willy St. during production if we’re short on supplies like lemons, and we can even get local apples there now, in February! We started selling our preserves there this fall, and we are excited to be featured in this month’s Producer Profile in the Willy St. Reader.

Prestigious Award!

clare — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 13:00:49 +0000

We were honored to discover our inclusion in the grand-prize-winning All-Wisco burger!

The Famed All-Wisco Burger

This delicious burger is topped with Q&A’s Shallot Confit with Red Wine and Carr Valley Billy Blue goat cheese. Mix those tasty treats with Fountain Prairie grass-fed ground beef and a Fayze’s Talame Bun and you got yerself one serious burger.

This delectable food photo received a grand prize from Facebook’s Cheese & Burger Society Photo Challenge. Nice!

Valentine’s Day Open House

clare — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 19:24:14 +0000

Join Potter’s Crackers, Terra Source Chocolates and Quince and Apple for a delicious evening of samples, pairings, kitchen tours, and Valentine’s gift ideas! Hosted at the Madison Enterprise Center, where our kitchens reside, this event will give you a chance to see how small-batch foods are really made!

Tuesday, February 9, 4-7pm
Madison Enterprise Center (100 South Baldwin)
Drop in anytime!
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Valentine’s Day Boxes!

clare — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:53:24 +0000

We’ve put together some beautiful Valentine’s Day Boxes filled with Potter’s Graham Crackers, our most aphrodisiac preserves and Gail Ambrosius chocolates and confections. Yum!

The Deluxe Sweetie Box

All of the products featured in this box can also be found on Foodzie, an online consortium of artisan producers selling delicious goods from across the country. In honor of Valentine’s Day and our collaboration with Foodzie, we recorded a video of us talking about what it’s like to be a couple owning a small business together. Check it out:

Heavy Table

clare — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:37:47 +0000

Hello 2010! Since our last blog post, we’ve moved into a new kitchen and had our first holiday season, which went great. In the midst of the craziness, we ran into James Norton and Becca Dilley, authors of The Master Cheesemakers of Wisconsin, doing a book signing at one of the cheese shops we sell in. It turns out they also write and take photos for a blog out of Minneapolis, heavytable.com, and we ended up doing our most extensive interview yet with them. Read all about what happened over the holidays, our business vision, and what it’s really like to work with your spouse.

Photo shoot with Yonda Photography!

clare — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 17:03:44 +0000

So, for the last month, we’ve been putting together a bunch of really nice holiday gift boxes. I can’t wait to show them off! So I won’t! Our friends at Yonda Photography did a marathon photo session of nine different images. Here’s me in front of the pro setup.

Clare at the Photo Shoot!

Pretty crazy, no? I learned a thing or two about photography, though to be a real photographer you should know at least 3,500 things. Andrew and Jennifer of Yonda Photo together know at least that much! And they are very fun to work with. Normally they are a wedding photography studio, so the product shots presented interesting challenges. We wanted the lighting bright but natural, and the angle of the products jaunty but readable. We’re very pleased with the results. I’ll put a sneak preview below. Our full holiday catalog should be up online this week!

Deluxe WI Gift Box

Tiny Jars Set

lillyella blog mention!

clare — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:47:21 +0000

This nifty lady, who makes some really beautiful pottery, mentioned us on her Slow Food in a Modern Kitchen blog. She also gives some excellent pairing suggestions. Thanks, lillyella!

Foodzie at Foodbuzz

clare — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:53:53 +0000

Obviously it’s meant to be, look at their names! Our friends at Foodzie are stuffing our cute mini-jars (sets of three coming out very soon!) into schwag-bags and sampling our new Pear with Honey and Ginger preserves at this weekend’s Foodbuzz Blogger Festival in San Francisco. It’s the first annual national gathering of foodies who love the internets. And it looks amazing. A big shout out to Foodzie for bringing us along!

Crackers, cheese, preserves & beer…ok!

clare — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 19:54:34 +0000

We’ve been invited to participate in a fun event, the Ferment Happy Hour at the Orpheum here in Madison. Wednesday night from 5:30-7:30 we’ll be sampling our new Pear with Honey and Ginger (sneak preview!) and this summer’s Organic Red Currant Jam, both made with local fruit sourced directly from the farm. We’ll be releasing the Pear with Honey and Ginger sometime in October so stay tuned! The Decider is featuring the Happy Hour in this week’s AV Club in the Onion.