Individuals at all times ask me “How did you grow to be the man who gives the very best butter on this planet to the highest eating places in America?”

This is the true story:

In 1999, my knee accidents had been so extreme that I may barely stroll. My physician urged that I attempt uncooked vitamin, and I started an intensive 3-year Uncooked Primal Weight loss plan, a part of which included giant portions of uncooked butter and cream. The one downside was that there was no uncooked butter in California. I known as my physician and requested him “What do I do about uncooked butter? There may be none within the supermarkets!” He mentioned, “Do the very best you possibly can.”

I obtained on the telephone and began dialing dairy farms. After being advised I used to be “loopy” by 158 small household farmers throughout America, I lastly discovered a lady and her husband in Kansas who agreed to make unpasturized butter for me with the cream from their 78 Licensed Natural Guernsey cows. I then FedEx-ed the butter out to California, gorged myself on it, and offered the remainder to different individuals who had been additionally on the identical Uncooked Primal Weight loss plan. The individuals liked the butter — and I quickly needed to get again on the telephone and discover extra farmers who actually cared about producing high quality merchandise manufactured in line with the precise necessities of the uncooked group.

This went on as a fairly low-key operation for about six months, till sooner or later I obtained a phone-call from considered one of America’s Tremendous Cooks, who had heard I used to be promoting “some superb uncooked butter.” I despatched him a field of butter and a few cream — he instantly turned a gradual buyer, and the 5 Star Butter Co. was born.

That summer season I purchased a aircraft ticket to JFK Airport, and took the butter and cream on a tasting tour of New York Metropolis’s high gourmand kitchens. “Excellent!” “Superb!” “Outrageous!” “Extraordinaire!” “Bravo!” These had been the feedback of the very best cooks in The Huge Apple. Pierre Schaedelin, then the Government Chef of Le Cirque, mentioned “That is the style of actual butter.”

In 2004, we had been thrilled to start our affiliation with the Jean-Louis Palladin Basis, and to assist their packages to extend the understanding and appreciation of high-quality substances amongst younger cooks and meals professionals by offering our butter to be used at their Celeb Chef Dinners and different occasions.

In the present day, in case you are spending $300 on dinner for two in Las Vegas or Chicago, you’re in all probability having fun with 5 Star Butter along with your artisinal breads, in your excellent sauces, or as the premise of your creamy deserts. To this present day, our dedication is to deliver the excellent high quality of actual meals immediately from small household farms to the very best tables in America.

As the character of our shopper requests has grow to be extra “Connoisseur” oriented and away from uncooked, now all of our butter merchandise are PASTEURIZED. Nevertheless, we’re SOOOO excited and happy to be offering our purchasers with 100% Licensed Natural, absolutely sustainable, absolutely traceable, Grass-fed Northern California 85% butterfat golden deliciousness for all of our Portion Management Butter Items.