Traders Point Creamery Lands Lucas Oil Stadium Suites Contract
Zionsville dairy will serve products at Lucas Oil Stadium gamesBy Leslie CollinsStar Correspondent
Indianapolis Colts fans from Zionsville who watch the games from the new Lucas Oil Stadium suites will feel right at home while grazing the table spread. Organic cheeses, ice cream and yogurts from Traders Point Creamery are likely to be on the menu.
While the details remain a secret, creamery spokespersons are looking forward to serving the farm fare in the suites at the onset of football season.
The popular organic dairy farm just south of Zionsville on Moore Road, is a common destination for its weekly farmers market, cafe and wine/cheese/music events on the patio. Its milk and yogurt products, cased in old-style glass milk bottles, are easy to spot on the shelves of supermarkets and organic food stores.
"The chocolate milk tastes like melted ice cream," noted Sharon Wolfe, who works in the farm store. Raspberry yogurt is a favorite among customers, she added.
The creamery has already branched out beyond the Lucas Oil Stadium, said Gail Alden, the creamery's publicist. Traders Point fare can be found on caterers' menus across the country, including the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago. "In San Francisco, our cheeses are very popular," Alden said.
But the local break with the stadium came when executive Chef Shumu Adem heard about the creamery from a friend and arranged with Alden to go to Traders Point for an official product sampling.
When he got there, Wolfe said she offered him and the other chefs cheese, yogurt and ice cream samples, not knowing who they were.
They were impressed. At the end of the day, all cheeses and yogurts come from the recipes of Fons Smits, creamery manager. He's known at the creamery as the "artisan cheesemaker."
"My philosophy is to develop very simple recipes," said Smits, a native of Holland. "All cheeses are made here, on site, and all of our milk products are certified organic, which means they are high in omega-3 and healthy fatty acids."
Though the creamery sells beef products, Smits is not sure the farm could, at this point, fill the volume required by the stadium.
"I'm not so sure about that," Alden said, with a laugh. "It could happen down the road."
For now, she has met with several Lucas Oil Stadium chefs, and they are still hashing out the menu items. One thing is for sure, all will be Traders Point first-rate style. For example, all the cheeses will be put under glass.
"Exactly which ones, I can't tell you yet," she said. "But all in all, it is a very exciting project."
Indianapolis Colts fans from Zionsville who watch the games from the new Lucas Oil Stadium suites will feel right at home while grazing the table spread. Organic cheeses, ice cream and yogurts from Traders Point Creamery are likely to be on the menu.
While the details remain a secret, creamery spokespersons are looking forward to serving the farm fare in the suites at the onset of football season.
The popular organic dairy farm just south of Zionsville on Moore Road, is a common destination for its weekly farmers market, cafe and wine/cheese/music events on the patio. Its milk and yogurt products, cased in old-style glass milk bottles, are easy to spot on the shelves of supermarkets and organic food stores.
"The chocolate milk tastes like melted ice cream," noted Sharon Wolfe, who works in the farm store. Raspberry yogurt is a favorite among customers, she added.
The creamery has already branched out beyond the Lucas Oil Stadium, said Gail Alden, the creamery's publicist. Traders Point fare can be found on caterers' menus across the country, including the Fairmont Hotel in Chicago. "In San Francisco, our cheeses are very popular," Alden said.
But the local break with the stadium came when executive Chef Shumu Adem heard about the creamery from a friend and arranged with Alden to go to Traders Point for an official product sampling.
When he got there, Wolfe said she offered him and the other chefs cheese, yogurt and ice cream samples, not knowing who they were.
They were impressed. At the end of the day, all cheeses and yogurts come from the recipes of Fons Smits, creamery manager. He's known at the creamery as the "artisan cheesemaker."
"My philosophy is to develop very simple recipes," said Smits, a native of Holland. "All cheeses are made here, on site, and all of our milk products are certified organic, which means they are high in omega-3 and healthy fatty acids."
Though the creamery sells beef products, Smits is not sure the farm could, at this point, fill the volume required by the stadium.
"I'm not so sure about that," Alden said, with a laugh. "It could happen down the road."
For now, she has met with several Lucas Oil Stadium chefs, and they are still hashing out the menu items. One thing is for sure, all will be Traders Point first-rate style. For example, all the cheeses will be put under glass.
"Exactly which ones, I can't tell you yet," she said. "But all in all, it is a very exciting project."
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