Good Food Awards—the first national awards platform to recognize American craft food producers who excel in superior taste and sustainability—will kick-start a month-long celebration of good food on January 14, 2011 with an awards ceremony hosted by ALICE WATERS at the iconic San Francisco Ferry Building. Good Food Month will connect farmers, chefs, food crafters, thinkers, activists, and all those who appreciate and believe in tasty, authentic, responsible food. The Good Food Awards received over 780 entries from 41 states, all vying for a chance to be among the 71 winners to receive an official “Good Food Awards Seal 2011.”
The winners were selected as best in class in both taste and sustainability by a panel of 80 judges—representing leaders and innovators in the product categories of beer, charcuterie, cheese, chocolate, coffee, pickles and preserves. Among a crowd of national food heroes, journalists, and food producers, CALEB ZIGAS (Director of La Cocina Community Kitchen) will MC the ceremony with ALICE WATERS, PETER GIULIANO (President of the Specialty Coffee Association of America), BRUCE AIDELLS (author of the Complete Book of Pork), JUNE TAYLOR (June Taylor Preserves), SANDOR KATZ (author of Wild Fermentation), and GREG ENGERT (Food & Wine’s Beer Sommelier of the Year 2009) and more. The winners will be presented with a seal that indicates a product is exceptionally delicious while also supporting sustainability and social good. To showcase winners among the broader food-loving public, there will be a Good Food Awards Marketplace on January 15, 2011. Visitors will be invited to talk shop with the winning producers, plus taste and purchase the award-winning foods from all around the country, against the backdrop of the spectacular CUESA Saturday Farmers Market at the Ferry Building. A month of celebration will follow, with hundreds of independently organized events across the Bay Area. Events will range from farm tours and panel discussions, to workshops, tastings and pop-up shops.
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