Mountain Roots Makes its Debut

A new Jackson Hole-based food company debuted last week

A new Jackson Hole-based food company debuted last week

A new Jackson-based food company is making it that much easier to eat locally.

Mountain Roots launched its new line of crackers, cookies, teas and more last week. The company, founded by Mimi Slaughter, Bob Arndt (the former owner of Jackson Whole Grocer) and Mary Speyer, uses local culinary artisans and farmers to produce small batches of food in handmade right here in Jackson Hole.

Call it mountain to table.

Their goal is to build a leading brand of delicious, high-quality local food by using culinary artisans and farmers in the Jackson Hole region.

“We’re doing the marketing and the branding,” Arndt said. “And this allows them to focus on what they do best.”

Products include:

•Beef jerky (hickory and apple wood-smoked and sea salt and lime), with beef from Haderlie Farms in Thayne that is cured by Hog Island Meats.

•Crackers (walnut and blue cheese, made by Lark’s Meadow Farms; rosemary sea salt, mountain herbs and buckwheat sesame) from Persephone Bakery

•Scone Mix (cranberry ginger and currants) from Wild Flower Bakery

•Cookies (chocolate almond) from Wild Flower Bakery.

•Granola (maple almond and tart cherries) from Jennifer Newbury, a former Chicago chef who moved here and opened a Gyrotonics studio in town and has now started Super G Granola

•Tea (spearmint, nettles, hawthorne berries, rosehips, licorice; or chamomile flowers, oat flowers, lemon balm leaf, catnip leaf) from Haderlie Farms

•Soap (wild sage or lemon grass) from Haderlie Farms

Mountain Roots cookies

Products will be free of artificial additives, preservatives and colors, minimally processed and composed of ingredients, whenever possible, that are local, organic, and sustainable.

The company will also donate a percentage of profits to support local non-profits.

Mountain Roots products are available at Jackson Whole Grocer, Aspens Market and Jackson Hole Mountain Resort.

Mountain Roots Crackers

 

 

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Cara Rank

Also originally from the South, Cara Rank discovered cooking was a creative outlet that helped her relax after long days writing magazine and newspaper articles during the past eight years in Jackson. Really, she just missed Southern food. A lot. During a 12-year career as a journalist, Cara has won numerous awards for her work and has written about everything from rodeo queens to Dolly Parton tomatoes. She spends her weekends making jars of pickles and jam and amazing dinners for friends. She loves shishito peppers, Chicago-style hot dogs and elderflower-spiked cocktails.