Closed stores and restaurants are also taking a toll on parts of the food industry, like cheesemakers, as they lose the normal outlets for their perishable products. Your local cheese shop should be your first stop, but, on Janet Fletcher’s Planet Cheese website, there’s a national list of the cheesemakers and retailers that ship their products, a good resource for shoppers. Similarly, the Fine Chocolate Industry Association, whose members mostly offer bean-to-bar confections, has a list of chocolate makers that sell online at Make Mine Fine. Lastly, Good Food Media Network, which publishes a restaurant guide called Good Food 100 Restaurants, has created an umbrella website, updated weekly, that includes farms, purveyors like Island Creek Oysters, producers like Anson Mills and several wineries, and distributors.
Janet Fletcher’s Planet Cheese, janetfletcher.com; Make Mine Fine, makeminefine.com; Good Food 100 Restaurants, goodfood100restaurants.org.