News! Voted Best of the Best 2008 Fancy Food Show Chicago 2008
May 11, 2008
This year the Global Food and Style Expo did not have the FMI show co-located along with the All Things Organic, Fancy Food Show and the U.S. Food Export Showcase so it was a slightly smaller show with less foot traffic. But it was filled with innovative products and amazing entrepreneurial stories! it.s a shame most consumers do not have the opportunity to meet the creators of new products like this and hear their stories of passion and how those overcome distribution. It gives me great pleasure to announce these item as best of show:
Leggio's Gourmet Cooking & Dipping herb infused olive oil
Chef Joseph Leggio creates amazing assortments of garlic & herb infused olive oil products. While there were others at the show with offerings in this vertical, none match the taste of Leggio's. Joseph started experimenting with the concept several years ago in the kitchen of his NJ 4 star Italian restaurant. Then one day asked his wife to ask her dad, a wine maker, to bring over some bottling equipment for him so he could bottle & test market his new creations with he's restaurant patrons. Though she thought he was crazy, she did it anyway and his hunch paid off, his business took off, from day one he could not keep up with the sales and soon had to buy a full bottling line, after only one year Joe has sold he's restaurant to deddicate him self in he's new venture and now has over 2,800 locations that sell Leggio's Olive Oils and is growing quite briskly every day. He claims to have some other amazing innovative ideas up his sleeve, I can't wait to see what they are.
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Olives, native to the region around the Mediterranean Sea, have been prized for millenia as one of the most important sources of oil in the world. Famous for their taste and their health benefits, olives are recognized today as as one of the healthiest foods we can eat, just as they have been known for centuries to be one of the tastiest.
From the earliest cookbooks we know to the Julia Childs and James Beards of today, herbs have been long been recognized by cooks from the most famous of chefs to the humblest of grandmothers as a way to enhance the flavor of the foods we eat. From ancient caravans to modern aircraft, bringing herbs to diners' doors has been one of the most important industries in the world.
Cultivated across Europe and Asia since the beginnings of civilization, garlic has been a standby "chef's secret" for ages. The flavor of garlic, whether lightly sauteed and mixed with pasta or steeped with oil and eaten with warm crusty bread, is well known for both its deliciousness and its immense health benefits.
What do these things have in common? Each comes into perfect balance with one another when mixed by the experienced hands of Chef Joseph Leggio.
Now, you can bring the years of experience that Chef Leggio has built up into your own home kitchen with Leggio's Gourmet Olive Oils. Each of his signature infused olive oil blends has been rigorously tested in his home and restaurant kitchens and is held to the strongest taste standards he knows: his grandmother's. Browse our website and see what bringing Chef Joseph Leggio's signature olive oils into your home kitchen can turn your next meal into.