Press for Sunny Side Organics

Monkey Salt lends roasty flavor
The salt, from the kitchen of EcoChef Aaron French at the Sunny Side Cafe in Albany, is jet black and so packed with flavor that a tiny pinch can trick anyone into believing that the food is hot off your backyard grill. It's an ingenious shortcut to great flavor.
Jolene Thym, The Picky Eater, The Oakland Tribune (7/08/2008)

"A fascinating range of new products...what a great discovery"
Dining Around with Gene Burns, KGO / ABC Radio (1/19/2008)
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“The essence of shroom” with "inventive new mushroom products."
Jolene Thym, The Picky Eater, The Oakland Tribune (1/23/2008) Read the entire article

“Chef Aaron French...build[s] tiers of flavor into his food.”
Wild mushrooms are culinary treasure, Food & Wine, Contra Costa Times (1/23/2008) Read the entire article


"the food couldn’t taste fresher”
Oakland Magazine (3/2007)

Eco-Chef Aaron French has received a number of awards for his food at The Sunny Side Cafe (where Sunny Side Organics products are made), including "Best Breakfast" (2006, 2007), "Best New Restaurant, Luna Dinner Hose" (2007). The Sunny Side Cafe has also won several awards for environmental action (including a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition in 2006), and has had his recipes published in several local newspapers.