Westminster Cracker Giveaway

Quality ingredients and artisanal production make a difference, even in the simplest products. When my foodie friend and PR freelancer Maris Callahan asked me if she could send me a box of Westminster oyster crackers to sample, I wasn't expecting much. I figured, how exciting can oyster crackers be? How much of a difference can a cracker make to a bowl of vegetable soup?

Pumpkin soup with brown butter drizzle would be even better with crackers

Well, I took one bite of the little crackers and threw my preconceived notions out the window. The Westminster Oyster Crackers were buttery with just the right amount of crunch and moisture balance. They tasted delicious as a quick snack on their own, and really added to a whole new dimension to my favorite butternut squash apple soup. The kids enthusiastically participated in the tasting and polished off  the sample box of 50 packages of crackers in a few days by snacking on them and putting them in their lunchboxes.

You can really taste that over a century of tradition goes into making these crackers. They are still manufactured in Rutland, Vermont with the same 7 all-natural ingredients as in the beginning. Thousands of restaurants across the US serve them with their bowls of soups and you can also buy them for your home at many local supermarkets. Overnight, thanks to Westminster Crackers, we became oyster cracker snobs and added the crackers to our weekly Whole Foods shopping list.

Picture Courtesy of Sur La Table

So that you can try the crackers for yourself and join me and my family  in the cracker snob club, I'm hosting a Westminster Cracker giveaway this week. The winner (continental US only please) will receive a beautiful assortment of soup products to really kick up their soup experience:

• Samples of Westminster Crackers (oyster, rounds and squares)
• This Set of 4 soup crocks from Sur La Table
• This Ladle from Sur La Table 
• These Soup Socks from Sur La Table

GIVEAWAY DETAILS
To enter to win, please leave me a comment about your favorite soup to make or eat. Feel free to share links or recipes as well! I'll select the winner at random after midnight on Sunday, April 10. Contest limited to US residents only.

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