Look, it’s getting cold and rainy. We know, Winter is Coming. Comfort food is how many of us survive these gloomier days. We can’t wait to check out the items from COBB’S who serves up delicious plantbased comfort food.
Tell us about your culinary journey.
We (Rebecca and Stephen) grew up on junk food for the most part. And when real food was cooked, it wasn’t with joy and creativity. When we got together in 2009 we experimented with all sorts of diets and cleansing. Shortly after moving to Olympia in 2011, a gluten-free elimination diet worked a miracle on Stephen’s energy. He soon started playing with all sorts of raw fruity plantbased and grainfree treats, mostly recipes from blogs. It was a fun challenge to try to please Rebecca’s refined dessert palate with such simple nourishing food. At some point we started feeding people for fun, and hosting donation-based community cafes in our home. We got enough positive feedback and decided to follow the thread of inspiration. In 2013, both of us began stepping away from our day jobs. We’ve been full time for at least a couple years, and while we spend more time on entrepreneurial problem-solving than inspired cooking, we’re so stoked to be providing food that makes people happy!
Where do you source your ingredients?
Our ingredients are what it’s all about for us. We’ve tried many of each, so they all come from a variety of places. Our favorite ingredient is probably the local raw honey we use – it comes from keepers’ bees that live on small organic farms and aren’t greedily robbed of their own honey food before winter’s end. This is the best sweet medicine around; you won’t find it anywhere in a supermarket. Second up is the water we use in our cashew cheese – it springs from local wells and, like the honey, connects us to this land. Just about everything else we use is certified organic and fair-trade where applicable.
What will our fans find at your booth this fall?
You’ll find all four flavors of our craft chocolate cups (Earth’s most decadent wholefood~inspired nutbutter cups) – peanut butter with cinnamon and a sea salty chocolate, sunbutter with espresso chocolate, walnut crunch with fennel pollen, and pecan crunch with cardamom and pistachio. You’ll also find all four flavors of our cashew cream cheese (a dense and spreadable cultured nut cheese made with the cleanest organic ingredients) – plain, green onion, garlic truffle, and balsamic tomato. These products can be found in natural food store refrigerators throughout the Salish Sea area and Oregon. More info on cobbstreats.com.
What are your goals for your business in the next year?
We’re aiming to build new relationships throughout Oregon and nurture relationships with stores already supporting our products in the greater Salish Sea area. We’d also love to find more positive people to help ambassador the Cobb’s brand with us!
What’s your favorite part of this food movement?
It seems like the appreciation for quality, organically and biodynamically grown food just keeps on bubbling up, at least within the communities that can afford it. We think this points to a deeper longing to meaningfully connect to the land we belong to, and to make the subtle feelings of outdoors-inspired awe and natural abundance more conscious, more weaved into our daily actions and food choices. We’re in the food business because we love to eat and feed others treats, but we also value the integrity, positivity, and honest-work that this sort of food business cultivates.
