Category: Pasta Sauce

If you’ve been looking on the grocery shelves lately for pasta sauce no doubt you’ve come across a new brand-Yo Mama’s. That’s right-Yo mama’s. To find out what’s going on here we spoke with Yo Mama’s brand manager Kristin Streger.   Q – Kristen I first saw a jar of Yo Mama’s on the shelves of Price Chopper. A – Yes Q – Yo Mama’s?! A – (Laughs). Q – That’s not a name in the tradition of a bottled pasta sauce like Rao’s, Ragu, Prego. A – Right. Q…

Q – Mr. Ricketts, is the Founder of Mids still alive today? A – No. Q – He founded the co. in 1938? A – Right. Q – Are you related to him in any way? A – No. I bought it from the family 10 years ago. Q – So, how did he start this co. in the Canton, Ohio area? A – He came over here from Sicily and he brought his mother’s recipes for Sicilian pasta sauces. He opened a little restaurant. His name was Midio Octavio,…

Launched just over two years ago, Dreamfields Pasta is now available in more than 15,000 supermarkets. What makes Dreamfields so special you might ask? Well, its health-promoting pasta with authentic pasta taste and texture, made with high quality wheat semolina. It has twice the fiber of regular pasta, is naturally cholesterol free and has zero grams of trans fat. Mike Crowley of the Dreamfields Co. which makes Dreamfields Pasta talked with us about the rise of Dreamfields Pasta. Q – Mike, what is your title in the co.? What are…

Continuing our look at pasta sauces, we focus on what has become a “New Haven Original”—–Palmieri Pasta Sauces, just part of Palmieri Food Products. To tell the story of the co. we interviewed Patrick Palmieri. Q – Patrick, it was your grandmother that started a family grocery store in New Haven? A – Yeah. They (grandmother and grandfather) had a little grocery store on Crown Street in New Haven, in 1920. My grandmother told me the way the sauce came about was she would always be selling fresh vegetables. If…

  It all started in her family’s restaurant, pasta sauce that brought a smile to the faces of everyone who tasted it. And today that pasta sauce is available in almost 2000 stores in 44 states. The sauce we are talking about is Pirro’s. Brianna Pirro spoke with us about Pirro’s sauce. Q – Brianna, I see your sauce made its way onto the shelves at Price Chopper in Syracuse, New York. Now, how is it determined what stores you’ll sell your pasta sauce in? How do you know what…