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Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: Giorgio DeLuca, Joel Dean & Jack Ceglic
Dean & DeLucaThis trio became specialty food pioneers in the 1970s and 1980s when they gave birth to Dean & DeLuca, a stylish global brand that inspired thousands of retailers to emulate their...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Edith Friedland
EFCO ImportsEdith Friedland was the first woman to lead the Specialty Food Association (then known as the National Association for the Specialty Food Trade). The company she and her husband Martin ran,...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Alfred Lepore
Ferrara FoodsAlfred Lepore broke new ground for imported Italian foods in the United States and fostered American production of Italian products under the iconic Ferrara brand. It all began with a 19th...
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The Specialty Food Association has announced its 2016 class of the Specialty Food Hall of Fame, honoring 47 individuals who have been instrumental in building and shaping the $109-billion specialty...
View ArticleSpecialty Food Association Announces 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
The Specialty Food Association has announced the recipients of the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Awards, which will be presented on Monday, June 27 at the Summer Fancy Food Show in New York City.Specialty...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Andrew Balducci
Andrew BalducciAndrew Balducci was born in 1925 in Corato, Italy. He came to America at the age of 14 and started working at his Uncle Frank’s small produce store. During WWII, Andy enlisted in the US...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winners: Eunice and David Bigelow
Eunice and David BigelowWhile the Bigelow Tea company attributes its beginnings to Ruth Bigelow and the advent of “Constant Comment”® Tea in 1945, David and Eunice paved the way for the explosion of...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Daniel J. Carter
Daniel J. CarterWidely regarded as the driving force behind the creation of the U.S. specialty cheese industry, Daniel Joseph Carter was born in 1930 in Wisconsin. In 1958 Dan began his cheese...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: F. James McGilloway
F. James McGillowayIn 1971, after a successful career in supermarket management, Jim migrated to the specialty food industry, where he spent 25+ years building success in the U.S. for Twinings Tea,...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner: Joel Schuman
Joel SchumanJoel Schuman founded Source Atlantique in 1991 as part of the Food Import Group. With years in the business and strong relationships with European suppliers, he raised the standards of...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Winston Stona, Busha Browne Company
Winston Stona introduced Jamaican jerk seasonings to the U.S. through Busha Browne, the Kingston-based company he co-founded in the late 1970s. Its high-end, all-natural sauces and condiments are made...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Harold and Lorie Alexander, Koppers Chocolate
Koppers Chocolate was co-founded in Manhattan in 1937 by Fred Stern, who had fled Germany before the start of World War II with his young family. His daughter, Lorie, grew up in his Greenwich Village...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Jerry Santucci, Santucci Associates Inc.
Jerry Santucci’s career in the specialty food business began in the Philadelphia area in 1965 when he co-founded Santucci Associates with his brother Anthony (Tony) Santucci. They set up shop in Tony’s...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winners Paul Saginaw and Ari Weinzweig,...
Zingerman’s Delicatessen opened in Ann Arbor, Mich., in 1982, co-founded by Paul Saginaw and Ari Weinzweig. It was always more than a red-brick storefront on a cobblestone street. The partners sought...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Ted Koryn, Liberty Foods
Ted Koryn was born in Amsterdam in 1924 and lived underground in Holland at the beginning of World War II until he escaped to the U.S. in 1942. He joined a Dutch Air Force unit attached to the U.S. Air...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Seymour Binstein, European Imports LTD.
Seymour Binstein founded European Imports LTD in 1978, introducing specialty cheese to the Midwest retail market. While cheese was his original passion, Seymour quickly moved into complimentary...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Paul Prudhomme, Magic Seasoning Blends
Chef Paul Prudhomme propelled the distinctive cuisine of his native Louisiana into the international spotlight by creating exciting and new American and international dishes. As the youngest of 13...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Benny Curl, Byrd Cookie Company
When Savannah, Ga. native Benny Curl was in high school, he asked out Kay Byrd. Before their first date, Curl had to help Kay’s father load dozens of cases of cookies into a delivery van. “That was my...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Bob Moore, Bob’s Red Mill
Bob Moore, 90, is the patriarch of America’s whole grain movement. His smiling, bearded visage is stamped on every package of Bob’s Red Mill, a company based outside of Portland, Ore. He and his late...
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Lifetime Achievement Award Winner Ariane Daguin, D’Artagnan
D’Artagnan was a 17th century French Musketeer – not just a literary or movie character – who did “things for the right reasons with panache, and not only for himself,” says Ariane Daguin, owner of...
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