"Robert Lambert's food products are not the result of hit-or-miss culinary interest, but the next step in a professional career that ranges from conceptual fine art to pastry chef, then master of canning and preserving condiments for San Francisco caterers to cookbook author and one of the Bay Area's in-demand food stylists."
—Beth Hensperger, San Jose Mercury News

"I had dinner with Robert Lambert last night. In fact, I eat with Robert just about every night, though I've never met him in person. Did you ever notice that when you fall in love with a food or a dish from a chef, you feel you know the creator personally? That's how I am. I guess you could say I'm a food groupie. Robert Lambert is a fruit genius. He gets more flavor out of fruit than anyone else I've ever found anywhere in the world. I use his fruit syrups in everything from meat marinades to martini mixers. I blend them together to make more complex fruit flavors. Try Blood Orange, Bergamot and Thai Ginger combined as a glaze for duck. It'll make you daffy.

I want to share with you something Robert sent me in answer to my asking what inspired him. I've found comfort in it many times over the last 2 years: 'My great-grandparents sacrificed everything known and familiar for the idea of a home in America. To them this meant a place to perform basic human acts with dignity, to nurture ourselves with the food and stories that tell us who we are. In that, they succeeded. From a hard and common place they created a life full of quality, beauty and pride- the daily rewards of hard work, resourcefulness and self-sufficiency.'"
—Dan Philips, owner, The Grateful Palate catalogue

Robert's inspiration came from a family farm in northern Wisconsin, where grandmother Florrie began cooking at 13 in the logging camps of the early 1900's. Extensive preserving by mother and grandmother was a fond childhood memory. When these memories met the ingredients of his adopted California home-wine, grapes, citrus fruit and ginger---his innovative product line was born.

For the full text of the introduction to Journey Home, Robert's memoir of his family's farm, download the PDF (journey.pdf)

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