Cured Meat & Fish | 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards

View the winners of the 2014 Editors’ Choice Food Awards — Cured Meat & Fish.

COLD SMOKED ATLANTIC SALMONSULLIVAN HARBOR FARM SMOKEHOUSE Hancock Village, Maine The team at Sullivan Harbor produces 75,000 pounds of luscious cured and smoked seafood each year, and we’re especially fond of their smoked salmon. It’s silky, with a perfect sweet/salt balance, thanks to a six-hour rubdown with a salt-and-brownsugar mixture and steady smoking over hickory, apple, or cherry wood. Suggested Retail Price: $16 for 8 ounces Where to Find It: Sullivan Harbor’s own retail store in Hancock Village, ME; Rosemont Market & Bakery in Portland, ME; Woodstock Farmers’ Market in Woodstock, VT; online at: sullivanharborfarm.comSMOKED BLUEFISH FOX SMOKED FISH Narragansett, Rhode island We’ve had enough overcooked and oversmoked bluefish to nearly give up on this hardy beast that stalks the New England waters each summer. But John and Hali LaFountain use just the right combination of smoke and salt (and sometimes cracked pepper) to produce a wonderfully meaty flavor and rich texture. It’s bluefish as it’s meant to be. Serve it on crackers, in a pate, or even straight out of the package. We do it all the time. Suggested Retail Price: $13.99 per pound Where to Find It: Chatham Fish & Lobster, Chatham, MA; many Whole Foods stores in Massachusetts and Connecticut; Champlin’s Seafood Market in Narragansett, RI; Number One Fish Market in Hamden, CT; Sayle’s Seafood in Nantucket MA.  

MAPLE-CURED BACON GREEN MOUNTAIN SMOKEHOUSE Windsor, Vermont Jake and Koreen Henne produce their delectable maple-cured and hickory-smoked bacon not only for their own customers; they also smoke bacon, hams, hocks, and jowls for area farmers. When farmers are trusting their goods to you, that’s a vote of confidence. This full-service butcher shop also sells excellent sausages and all the regular cuts, but it’s that maple-scented bacon that we crave the most. Suggested Retail Price: $6.75 for 12 ounces Where to Find It: Shelburne Meat Market in Shelburne, VT; Cold Hollow Cider Mill in Waterbury, VT; River Valley Deli in Northampton, MA; Dimond Hill Farm in Concord, NH; many co-ops in Vermont and New Hampshire; Berkshire Organics in Dalton, MA.