Many people’s perceptions of vegan food (or other restricted ingredient foods, such as gluten-free) are summarized with just one word: yuck. That need not be the case—they just haven’t discovered the truly great products made by gifted recipe developers using the best ingredients.

Shocking as the idea may be to many, the folks at Original Field Roast Grain Meat Co. make one heck of a line of beautifully seasoned non-meat sausages, cutlets, roasts and more. You can’t believe you aren’t eating meat...but no matter what it is, it’s incredibly delicious. I ate like the condemned, vacuuming up these delicious vegan “meats.” Wow!

If you’re not familiar with ghee, you should be. Ghee is similar to clarified butter, but it can be stored for extended periods without refrigeration. It is the “very best fat one can eat,” according to ayurvedic doctors, and it has a higher flash point than most conventional oils.

Ancient Organics Ghee is made from the wonderful organic milk of the Holstein cows at the Straus Dairy and Creamery in California’s Marin County. For your health’s sake, if you like to cook (or eat lots of butter), don’t miss out on this one.

THE NIBBLE has had two Top Picks Of The Week with liquor: Mercer’s Ice Cream and Wine Cellar Sorbets. Now, newcomer Silver Moon offers seven spirits-infused ice cream flavors and seven spirited sorbets, soon to be a Top Pick on its own merits.

I couldn’t stop eating all of the flavors in front of me; and while I won’t list them all here, I will tantalize you with a sampling: Bourbon Vanilla Bean (that’s with real bourbon), Lavender Limoncello, Mango Mimosa, Mojito Ice and Praline Irish Cream.

If you’ve never had a homemade marshmallow, you don’t know what you’re missing—pure homespun sugars and-all natural flavors, for starters. Butter Baked Goods in Vancouver has made the most melt-in-your-mouth marshmallows I’ve had to date—and if you read THE NIBBLE’s article on gourmet marshmallows, you’ll know there have been more than a few around here.

In addition to vanilla, the strawberry and toasted coconut are equally delicious. Sorry, the picture will be as close as you’ll get to these marshmallows if I’m in the room. There is no e-commerce, but the marshmallows will be in the Dean & DeLuca spring catalog.

Finally, tucked away in the last booth of the last row (at least in the order I walked the show) was a nifty little toffee company, Brandini Toffee. Of course, I needed to taste and taste and taste some more, just to be sure. Their story is as interesting as the toffee was tasty. Leah Post and Brandon “Brandini” Weimer, in their freshman year of high school, needed to pay for half of a school trip. Best friends since pre-school, this pair were too young to get jobs, so they made and sold toffee.