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The Good Food Awards Finalists for 2018 Have Been Announced
Posted on 11/8/2017
San Francisco, CA (November 7, 2017) – The Good Food Foundation is proud to announce the 279 companies in the running for a Good Food Award in 2018. The Finalists represent not just the best of America’s food movement, but the qualities we love most about this country: our rich cultural diversity, vibrant agricultural landscape, and the creativity and integrity of its small business owners. The 15 categories the Good Food Awards celebrate – from spirits to cheese to coffee – comprise over $200 billion of America’s gross domestic product, a greater portion than the cattle and pork industries combined. The 2018 Finalists represent the vanguard in each of their industries, setting new standards for gastronomic excellence as well as social and environmental practices that have over time proven to be adopted by the rest of the industry. Each Finalist rose to the top in a blind tasting of 2,057 entries, and also passed a rigorous vetting to confirm they meet Good Food Awards standards regarding supply chain transparency, environmentally sound agricultural practices, humane animal husbandry and deep community engagement. Amongst their ranks are Mehdi Boujrada of Villa Jerada, who brings the flavors of his childhood home in Morocco to Seattle; Mark Sanfilippo of Salume Beddu, who crafts Tuscan-style salami in Saint Louis; and Ayako Iino, who combines Japanese tradition with California plums to make her ume pickles, syrups, and preserves. All of the Finalists – including 162 companies (58%) that have never won before – partner with hundreds of farmers, ranchers and fishermen to actively build a better food system. The Winners will be announced on Friday, January 19, 2018, at a gala in the historic San Francisco War Memorial, followed by two days of celebration including the public Good Food Awards Marketplace (Tickets: $5) and the industry-only Good Food Mercantile (Tickets: $35). A limited number of tickets are available to join the Winners and honorary host Alice Waters, pioneer of the food movement, at the Awards Ceremony (Tickets: $165). Organizers & Supporters: The Good Food Awards are organized by the Good Food Foundation 501 (c) 3. The Presenting Sponsor is the Good Food Merchants Collaborative, comprised of 22 of the country’s top independently-owned retailers from Austin to Oakland to Sioux Falls, all of whom are committed to supporting America’s great food crafters. Joining them is a vibrant group of key supporters, including Premier Sponsors Williams-Sonoma, Bi-Rite Market, Vermont Cheese Council and Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture; and Lead Sponsors Dominic Phillips Event Marketing, Impact HUB Bay Area, Gamut SF, Ten Speed Press, The Perennial and Veritable Vegetable. Special thanks to the Collaborative Members: Antonelli’s Cheese Shop, Bi-Rite Market, Canyon Market, Cowgirl Creamery, Cured, Di Bruno Bros., Each Peach Market, Foragers Market, Glen's Garden Market, Good Earth Natural Foods, The Greene Grape, Healdsburg SHED, JM Stock Provisions, Liberty Heights Fresh, Look’s Market, Market Hall Foods, Palace Market, Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread & Wine, TASTE, Washington’s Green Grocer, Woodstock Farmers’ Market, Zingerman’s Family of Businesses The full list of Finalists is here, and tickets for the Good Food Awards weekend are here. BEER Allagash Brewing Company, Sixteen Counties, Maine Almanac Beer Co., Apricot de Brettaville & Lavender Honey, California Atwood Ales Farm Brewery, Rhuty, Washington Brewery Vivant, Farm Hand, Michigan Chetco Brewing Company, Elmorado IPA, Oregon Drake’s Brewing Company, Cherryland, California Eel River Brewing Company, Organic IPA, California Full Sail Brewing Company, Amber Ale, Oregon Falling Sky Brewing, Dreadnut Tropical Stout, Oregon Fullsteam Brewery, Farm's Edge: Alexis, Farm's Edge: Brumley Forest & Farm's Edge: Dinnsen's Orchard, North Carolina Headlands Brewing Company, Hill 88 Double IPA, California Lakefront Brewery, My Turn Latif Double Chocolate Stout, Wisconsin Ninkasi Brewing Company, Pacific Rain Pale Ale, Oregon Perennial Artisan Ales, Savant Beersel & Glitter and Gold, Missouri Port City Brewing, Tidings Ale, Virginia Rogue Ales & Spirits, Honey Kolsch, Oregon Southpaw BBQ, Flanders Red Ale, California Strange Land Brewery, Scotch Ale & IPA, Texas Throwback Brewery, Love Me Long Time Bohemian Pilsner, New Hampshire CHARCUTERIE American Pig, Picante Salami & Lomo, North Carolina Beltex Meats, Coppa & Country Pate, Utah Bi Rite Market, Duck Liver Mousse, California Brooklyn Cured, Smoked Coppa, New York Charlito’s Cocina, Campo Seco, New York Elevation Charcuterie and Artisan Meats, Calabrese, Colorado Farmer's Daughter Market & Butcher, Hot Capicola, West Virginia Fra' Mani Handcrafted Foods, Salametto Piccante & Soppressata, California JACüTERIE, Soppressata, New York Lady Edison with San Giuseppe Salami Co., Sweet Sopressata & Spanish Style Chorizo, North Carolina Les Trois Petits Cochons, Saucisson Sec Basque, New York ‘Nduja Artisans, Culatello, Illinois Olympia Provisions, Chorizo El Rey & Green Peppercorn Pate, Oregon Red Bear Provisions, Holy Cow! Beef Dry Salami Sticks, Illinois Salume Beddu, Finocchiona, Missouri Thistle Meats, Milano Salami, California Toro Bravo, Sobrasada Mallorca, Fuet & Chorizo, Oregon Underground Meats, Ghost Pepperoni, Wisconsin CHEESE Alemar Cheese Company, Bent River, Minnesota Bellwether Farms, Whole Milk Basket Ricotta, California Blackberry Farm, Hawkins Haze, Tennessee Boxcarr Handmade Cheese, Campo & Winsome, North Carolina Briar Rose Creamery, Goat Milk Feta & Lorelei, Oregon Cascadia Creamery, Glacier Blue, Sawtooth & Sleeping Beauty, Washington Consider Bardwell Farm, Rupert, Vermont Firefly Farms Creamery, Merry Goat Round Spruce Reserve, Maryland Goldin Artisan Goat Cheese, Cascadian Frechette, Oregon Green Dirt Farm, Prairie Tomme, Missouri Jacobs and Brichford Farmstead Cheese, Adair, Indiana LaClare Farms Specialties, Evalon & Cave Aged Chandoka, Wisconsin Landmark Creamery, Petit Nuage & Pecora Nocciola, Wisconsin Lark's Meadow Farms, Rendezvous, Idaho Laura Chenel, Taupinière, California Looking Glass Creamery, Bear Wallow, North Carolina Montchevre, Fresh Goat Cheese, Wisconsin Nettle Meadow Farm, Kunik, New York Point Reyes Farmstead Cheese Company, Bay Blue, California Sequatchie Cove Creamery, Cumberland, Tennessee Spring Brook Farm Cheese, Tarentaise & Ashbrook, Vermont Sweet Grass Dairy, Thomasville Tomme & Asher Blue, Georgia The Woodsman & Wife, Jersey Girl, Georgia Tomales Farmstead Creamery, Kenne, California Von Trapp Farmstead, Oma, Vermont Wm. Cofield Cheesemakers, McKinley Clothbound Cheddar, California CHOCOLATE Arete Fine Chocolate, Madagascar Sambirano Valley 70% Dark Chocolate, California BOHO Chocolate, 70% Dark Chocolate Maya Mountain Spicy Chai, Massachusetts Castronovo Chocolate, Signature Collection Tumaco Dark Milk 60%, Florida Charm School Chocolate, Cafe Mocha, Maryland Chokola Bean To Bar, Guatemala, Verapaz 70% & Maya Mountain, Belize 70%, New Mexico Creo Chocolate, Brown Butter Bar, Oregon Cultura Craft Chocolate, 60% Espresso + Sea Salt, Colorado Dandelion Chocolate, Hacienda Azul, Costa Rica, California Dark Forest Chocolate, Salted Malted Milk Chocolate, New York Dick Taylor Craft Chocolate, 73% Northerner Blend, California Endorfin, Caramelized Coconut and Golden Mylk Bar, California Fresh Coast Chocolate Co., Tanzania 70%, Michigan Fruition Chocolate, Milk Chocolate Quinoa Crunch, Brown Butter Milk 43% & Wild Bolivia 74%, New York Goodnow Farms Chocolate, Esmeraldas 70%, Massachusetts Maverick Chocolate Company, Big Island, Ohio Meadowlands Chocolate, Peru San Martin Milk Chocolate 55%, Minnesota Patric Chocolate, 70% Signature Blend, The Salty Cow & 67% Madagascar, Missouri Ritual Chocolate, Vanilla Bar 70%, Utah Stone Grindz, Coffee and Coconut Milk, Arizona Xocolatl Small Batch Chocolate, Peru 70%, Georgia CIDER Angry Orchard Innovation Cider House, First Flora, New York Big B's Hard Cider, Grand Cru Ciaison & Chester Hoppearcot, Colorado Big Fish Cider Co., Allegheny Gold, Virginia Castle Hill, Serendipity & Levity, Virginia Dragon's Head Cider, Traditional Cider, Perry & Wild Fermented Cider, Washington Eden Ice Cider Company, 2015 Honey Crisp Iced Cider, Vermont Ethic Ciders, Golden Rule, California Fable Farm Fermentory, Pronoia, Vermont Far West Cider Co, You've Guava Be Kidding Me & Proper Dry, California Finnriver Farm Cidery, Blue Hewe, Washington Foggy Ridge Cider, First Fruit, Virginia Lassen Traditional Cider, Newtown Pippin, California Nashi Orchards, Chojuro Asian Pear Perry, Washington Shacksbury, Shacksbury Dry, Vermont South Hill Cider, Old Time Cider, New York Stem Ciders, Colorado Heritage Blend, Colorado WildCraft Cider Works, Sage, Oregon COFFEE Andytown Coffee Roasters, Ethiopia Idido, California Backyard Beans Coffee Company, Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Konga, Pennsylvania Big Creek Coffee Roasters, Ethiopia Gedeb, Montana Black Oak Coffee Roasters, Ethiopia Hambela Alaka, California Blueprint Coffee, Ethiopia Hambela, Missouri Caffe Ladro, Ethiopia Hambela Kirite Organic, Washington Compelling Coffee, Ethiopia Banko Gotiti Coffee, California Flight Coffee Co., Ethiopia Amaro Gayo, New Hampshire Huckleberry Roasters, Ethiopia Sidama Ardi, Colorado Intelligentsia Coffee & Tea, Organic Ethiopia Tikur Anbessa, California JBC Coffee Roasters, Gedeb Lot 83 Ethiopia Natural, Wisconsin Metric Coffee Company, El Willay, Illinois Mudhouse Coffee Roasters, Limu Dabesa, Ethiopia, Virginia Noble Coffee Roasting, Ethiopian ‘Bishan Fugu’, Oregon Noble Coyote Coffee Roasters, Ethiopian Guji - Organic - Natural Process, Texas Onyx Coffee Lab, Ethiopian Buku, Arkansas OQ Coffee Co., Kayon Mountain Estate, Ethiopia, New Jersey Ozo Coffee Roasters, Ethiopia Hambela Kirite, Colorado Pachamama Coffee Cooperative, Organic Ethiopia Kossa Geshe & Organic Ethiopia Natural Amaro, California Per'La Specialty Roasters, Ethiopia Shakiso, Florida Radio Roasters Coffee, Ethiopia Organic Guji Shakiso, Georgia Revel Coffee, Ethiopia Kayon Mountain Guji Dry, Montana Royal Mile Coffee, Ethiopia Shakiso Mormora Farm, New Jersey Square One Coffee, Ethiopia Shakiso Mormora, Pennsylvania Tico Coffee Roasters, Ethiopia Gotiti, California Topeca Coffee Roasters, Ethiopia Ardi, Oklahoma Vashon Coffee Company, Ethiopia Yirgacheffe Natural Daniel Miju, Washington CONFECTIONS Alma Chocolate, Matcha Mint Bar, Oregon Baci Artisan Chocolatier, French Silk, California Batch PDX, Earl Grey & Almond Crisp, Oregon Chocolatay Confections, Sunflower Crunch Cup, North Carolina Eat Chic Chocolates, Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cup with Maldon Sea Salt, New York Eclat Chocolate, Green Tea and Roasted Rice Parallel Bar, Pennsylvania Escazu Artisan Chocolates, Earl Grey Dark Chocolate Ganache & Orange Star Anise, North Carolina Fat Toad Farm, Original Goat's Milk Caramel Sauce, Vermont Feve Artisan Chocolatier, Peanut Butter Coconut Chili, California Fran's Chocolates, Dark Chocolate Sauce & Caramel Sauce, Washington Fruition Chocolate, Brown Butter Bourbon Caramels, New York Good King, Harmony Gourmet Snacking Cacao, Washington Halvah Heaven, Silk Road Halvah, Massachusetts La Vache Microcreamery, Citrus Spice Caramels, Virginia Little Apple Treats, California Candy Cap Caramels, California Mayana Chocolate, Coconut Dream Bar & Mayan Spice Bar, Wisconsin Michael's Chocolates, Lemon Burst, California My Chocolate Soul, Almond Crunch, Illinois Nuubia SF, Dark Chocolate Espresso Krispies, California Patric Chocolate, Browned Butter Bar, Missouri Red Kite Candy, Salted Maple Pecan Caramel, Vermont Sapore Della Vita, Cardamom Rose Caramel Sauce, Florida SWEET55, EMJ, California ELIXIRS Backyard, Citrus and Juniper Shrub, California Blank Slate Kitchen, Black Pepper Rich Simple Syrup, New York DRAM Apothecary, Pine Syrup, Colorado El Guapo Bitters, Chicory Pecan Bitters & Classic Greek Rose Cordial, Louisiana Element [Shrub], Chai Pear Shrub & Blueberry Rosemary Shrub, Virginia Gardenaire, Rhubarb + Basil Shrub & Tomato + Basil Shrub, Minnesota Girl Meets Dirt, Ruby Spiced Apple Shrub, Washington Golden Bear Bitters, Summer Botanical Tonic Syrup, California Happy Girl Kitchen, Pomegranate Jalapeño Shrub, California Improper Goods, The Bitter Housewife Cardamom Bitters, Oregon Modern Bar Cart, Embitterment Chocolate Bitters, District of Columbia More Good, Cassia Kream, New York Old Friends Farm, Ginger Syrup, Massachusetts Pacific Pickle Works, Bloody Mary Elixir, California Reverend Al's Bona Fide Potents, English Cucumber, Lime & Mint Shrub, Washington Royal Rose Syrups, Rose Syrup, Maine SHED, Plum Shiso Shrub, California Ship to Shore Merchants, Poached Pear Shrub, Illinois Shrub District, Just Grapefruit, District of Columbia Southport Grocery, Spiced Orchard Shrub, Illinois Swallowtail Farm, Raspberry Syrup, Michigan The Vermont Switchel Company, Haystackers Switchel, Vermont Yumé Boshi, Ume Plum Syrup, California FISH Bon Appetit Management Co. (Mt. Angel Abbey & Seminary), Hardwood Hot Smoked Columbia River Chinook Salmon, Oregon Catalina Offshore Products, Catalina's Choice Solid Pack Tuna in Olive Oil, California Dining at Microsoft, Cajun-Cured Salmon, Washington Fishing Vessel Seafoods, Mediterranean (Solid White Albacore Tuna), Washington Lox, Box, and Barrel, Celtic Seafare, Traditional Cold Smoked Salmon, Texas Pure Alaska Salmon Company with Ocean Beauty Seafoods, Canned Pink Salmon, Washington SHED, Smoked Trout & Smoked Black Cod, California Tsar Nicoulai Caviar, Jordan's Chef Reserve & Wild Cold Smoked Salmon, California TwoXSea, Smoked McFarlands Spring Trout, California Wildfish Cannery, Smoked Canned Geoduck, Alaska HONEY Akaka Falls Farm, Dark Kiawe Honey, Hawaii Apoidea Apiary, Allegheny Fall Fallopia Wildflower Honey, Pennsylvania Bloom Honey, California Avocado Honey, California Gold Star Honeybees, Gold Star Gold, Maine Harmon’s Heavenly Honey, Summer Honey, Massachusetts Hippie Chick Apiary, Honey, Virginia Jacobsen Salt Co. + Bee Local, Pioneer Square & Sauvie Island, Oregon MD Queen Bee, Summer Bloom, Maryland MtnHoney, Sourwood Honeycomb, Georgia Palace Apiaries, Honey, Pennsylvania Red Headed Honey, Wild Michigan Wildflower Honey, Michigan Round Rock Honey, Bourbon Barrel Aged Honey, Texas Sequim Bee Farm, Snowberry Rose, Washington Swarm Chasers Apiary, Wildflower Honey, Georgia Sweet Grass Dairy, Honey, Georgia Urban Bee SF, Tree Blossom Honey- Heath Ceramics, California OILS Berkeley Olive Grove 1913, California Mission Blood Orange, California Bondolio, Extra Virgin Olive Oil, California Calivirgin - Coldani Olive Ranch, Hot Virgin Jalapeno Olive Oil, California ENZO Olive Oil Company, Organic Basil Crush, California Frantoio Grove, Extra Virgin Frantoio Grove Oil, California Hudson Wines, Titi's Extra Virgin Olive Oil, California Mangini Ranch, Mission Oil & Mangini Ranch Estate Blend Oil, California McEvoy Ranch, Traditional Blend Olive Oil, California Oliver Oil Co., Pecan Oil, Georgia Organic Roots Olive Oil, Organic Arbequina Olive Oil, California Swayne Family Ranch, EVOO Tuscan Blend, California PANTRY A&A Alta Cucina Italia, Vidalia Chutney, Georgia Aedan, Country Miso, California Akka's Handcrafted Foods, Garlic Relish, California American Spoon, Roasted Tomatillo Salsa, Michigan Black & Bolyard, Bay Leaf Brown Butter, New York Bunches & Bunches, Green: Fire Roasted Green Chile Sauce, Oregon Chaparral Gardens, Ole Mole, California Dress It Up Dressings, Sesame Tahini Dressing, Maryland Finding Home Farms, Organic Maple Syrup, New York Grlk, Fresh Basil Grlk, Minnesota K-Mama Sauce, K-Mama Sauce, Minnesota Le Bon Magot, Tomato and White Sultana Chutney, New Jersey Mt. Capra, Grass-Fed Goat Milk Ghee, Washington Naturally Nutty Foods, Organic Pepita Sun Seed Butter, Michigan ‘Nduja Artisans, ‘Nduja Spread, Illinois Nena’s Provisions, Dust Foothills Chili Sauce, North Carolina Off the Deck Hot Sauce, Habanero #HUSTLE, North Dakota Runamok Maple, Rye Barrel Aged Maple Syrup, Vermont Sajen, Sambal Satay, California SanoBe Superfoods, Peanut Butter, Rhode Island Seattle Canning Company, Sonny’s Spicy Eggplant Kasundi, Washington Solstice Canyon, The Original Almond Butter, California Spice Mama, Sweet Heat Tomato, California Villa Jerada, Chermoula, Washington Wozz! Kitchen Creations, Spiced Beet Vinegar, New Hampshire PICKLES Boochcraft, Grapefruit + Hibiscus + Heather Kombucha, California Brew Dr. Kombucha, Mint Lemonade, Oregon Cecelia’s Gardens, Green Papaya Thai Kimchi, California Fab Ferments, Pineapple Cilantro Kombucha, Ohio Farmer’s Daughter, Nettle Kraut, North Carolina Food and Ferments, Hearts on Fire, New York Fox Point Pickling Company, Spice Market Beans, Rhode Island Gordy’s Pickle Jar, Cajun Okra, District of Columbia Grandma’s Gourmets, Grandma’s Bloody Pickles, Minnesota HEX Ferments, Glow Kraut, Maryland Johnson Berry Farm, MJ’s Bread and Butter Pickle & MJ’s Basil Bread and Butter Pickle, Washington Olykraut, Cumin Jalapeño Sauerkraut, Washington Pacific Pickle Works, Lemon Verbena Hop-Pickles & Fenn Shui, California Provisions by the Grey Plume, Sauerkraut, Nebraska Real Pickles, Garlic Dill Pickle, Massachusetts Republic of Jam, Pickled Green Plums, Oregon Roots Kitchen and Cannery, Curried Carrot Pickles, Montana Seattle Canning Co., Vashon Island Pickles, Washington SHED, Pickled Shiitake Mushrooms, California Slow Brine, Seed and Salt, California The Brinery, Dill Pickle Sauerkraut & Galaxy Rose Sauerkraut, Michigan The Juice Hive, Shiso Leaf Kimchi & Low Country Kimchi, South Carolina PRESERVES Akaka Falls Farm, Tahitian Lime Ginger Jelly & Passionfruit Jalapeño, Hawaii American Spoon, Wild Thimbleberry Jam & Chili Jam, Missouri Amour Spreads, Olallaberry Jam, Utah Atwater's, Strawberry Hibiscus Jam, Maryland Blake Hill Preserves, Wild Blueberry and Thyme, Vermont Christina Maser Co., Jim's Raspberry Jalapeno Pepper Jam, Pennsylvania Copper Pot & Wooden Spoon, Honey Citrus Marmalade, North Carolina Fiddlehead Farm, Roasted Strawberry Preserves, North Carolina Jamnation, Apricot Up in the Moment, California Johnson Berry Farm, Strawberry Basil Jam, Washington Josephine's Feast, Wild Foraged Beach Plum Preserve, New York Larder & Cupboard, Strawberry Lemon Verbena Preserves & Apricot Lemon Thyme Preserves, Missouri Maui Fruit Jewels, Hawaii Fruit Paste - Passion Fruit, Hawaii Mt. Hope Farms, Aronia Haskap Fruit Spread, Columbia Star-Aronia-Lavender Fruit Spread & Spiced Marionberry Fruit Spread, Oregon Pick and Preserve, Peach NC Apple Brandy Butter, North Carolina Regina's Farm Kitchen, Strawberry, Blueberry, and Jalapeño Jam, Georgia Roots Kitchen & Cannery, Sour Plum and Sage, Montana San Carlos Quince, Quince Paste, Oregon SHED, Raspberry Rose Jam, California Yumé Boshi, Ume Plum Jam, California SPIRITS Alchemy Distillery, Boldt Genever Style Gin, California Balcones Distilling, Baby Blue, Texas Black Button Distilling, Citrus Forward Gin, New York Catoctin Creek Distillery, Roundstone Rye 80 Proof & Roundstone Rye 92 Proof, Virginia Copper Barrel Distillery, White Lightning, North Carolina Deerhammer Distillery, American Single Malt, Colorado Elixir, Calisaya & Fernet dei Fratelli Loreto, Oregon Fair Game Beverage Co., Flying Pepper Tobago Infused Vodka, North Carolina Falcon Spirits Distillery, Amaro Aplomado, California Richland Distilling Company, Single Estate Virgin Coastal Georgia Rum, Georgia Spirit Works Distillery, Sloe Gin, California StilL 630 Distillery, Expedition Rum, Missouri Van Brunt Stillhouse, Bourbon, New York Venus Spirits, Aquavit & Wayward Whiskey Bourbon, California Vikre Distillery, Boreal Juniper Gin & Boreal Cedar Gin, Minnesota Vivacity Spirits, Treos Brandy, Oregon ABOUT THE GOOD FOOD AWARDS The Good Food Awards celebrate the kind of food we all want to eat: tasty, authentic and responsible. Now in its eighth year, awards will be given to winners in 15 categories: beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, cider, coffee, confections, elixirs, fish, honey, oils, pantry, pickles, preserves and spirits. The Good Food Awards Seal, found on winning products, assures consumers they have found something exceptionally delicious that also supports sustainability and social good. ABOUT THE GOOD FOOD FOUNDATION The Good Food Awards is organized by the Good Food Foundation 501 (c) 3, formerly known as Seedling Projects, in collaboration with a broad community of food crafters, grocers, chefs, food writers, activists and passionate food-lovers. The Good Food Foundation is also the organizing force behind the Good Food Guild, Good Food Mercantile and Good Food Merchants Collaborative.
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