Maine-Made 'Good Clean Food' Line of All-Natural Simmer Sauces Attracting Customers from Maine to Kentucky
Hand-crafted "Slow Food in a Jar" sauces made in Maine are offering fresh flavor and dinnertime convenience - and catching on quickly with customers. All-natural Creole, Mediterranean and Scandinavian Dill sauces from Maine-based Good Clean Food are being distributed at 72 supermarket locations to date, and receiving rave reviews from shoppers. Plans for additional flavorful dinner sauces are in the works.
Portland, ME (PRWEB) June 7, 2007
Maine's Good Clean Food (http://www. goodcleanfood. com) today announced that its line of all-natural, one-step simmer sauces is being offered by a growing number of high-profile, national supermarkets. The company's refrigerated simmer sauces are now being sold in the fresh seafood departments of 72 market locations, by both Whole Food Markets and Hannaford Brothers, from northern Maine down to Louisville, Kentucky. Additional concrete growth plans are underway at Good Clean Food for flavor-filled, new product offerings and for continued market expansion, according to the company's President and Founder, Kurt Shisler.
"We're very encouraged that our Maine-made simmer sauces have so quickly caught on with shoppers," Shisler noted. "We think this is a fair indicator that people want to prepare and serve fresh, healthy dinners, but often lack the time or cooking experience to make that happen. There's so much to be said about the very real connection that comes from enjoying great meals with one another, and I think this is a main reason why our simmer sauces are really appealing to so many folks."
Launched in September 2006, the story of Good Clean Food represents a bona fide story of American ingenuity. While a business school graduate student in Boston, Shisler, who has always enjoyed cooking, prepared a meal for his new friends. The meal contained only the freshest vegetables and ingredients available, including seafood straight off of a waterfront boat. Fourteen hours of shopping, chopping and stock-making later, Shisler added fresh fish, simmered for 10 minutes, and ladled out the bouillabaisse to end all bouillabaisses. One of his dinner guests remarked that he wished Shisler could put that whole day's work in a jar - and so, Good Clean Food was born.
Good Clean Food simmer sauces for seafood - Mediterranean, Creole and Scandinavian Dill - are as honest and pure as the company's own name. Praised by customers as much for their robust flavors as for their healthy ingredients, Good Clean Food's hand-crafted sauces represent a whole new "quality in a jar" food offering. The sauces have been earning high marks for dinnertime convenience, as well. Their one-step, 10-minute preparation makes every meal with the company's sauces an easy-to-assemble, flavorful success.
Each artisanal jar of Good Clean Food sauce uses only fresh, all-natural ingredients that are chopped and prepared by hand. Shisler's sauces are low-sodium and low-fat, and contain no antibiotics, no additives and no GMOs.
"We put a lot of effort toward creating our recipes and toward the actual preparation of our sauces," said Shisler. "We're convinced that our small-batch cooking method and our use of quality ingredients make an enormous difference - not just in the great flavor and texture of our sauces, but also in terms of people's good health."
In good culinary news, the simmer sauces continue to earn growing popularity among Good Clean Food's devoted, expanding customer base. The many enthusiastic feedback comments the company has received since its successful launch help illustrate the sauces' appeal: "Outrageously good," wrote one Hartford, CT customer, while a New York City customer wrote that the simmer sauce "makes ordinary fish taste amazing." "I can't believe it, but thanks to Good Clean Food, my kids are happily eating fish," according to another satisfied customer in Portland, ME, while a shopper from North Wales, PA noted "I like this very much … what a great, easy dinner."
The Portland company has plans for new product offerings in the works, as well. In addition to its upcoming launch of flavorful simmer sauces for chicken this summer, Good Clean Food also is testing and perfecting recipes for lines of seasonal sauces, grilling sauces and vegetarian dinner sauces.
"Given the enthusiastic customer response we're seeing during this first year, we have high hopes for our upcoming new lines of sauces," Shisler added. "When we first started, we set the healthy goal of proving that all-natural sauces didn't mean having to sacrifice flavor. So far, we've done a pretty good job of reaching that goal."
Resources for Press:
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For further product information and a list of distributors, visit the Good Clean Food Website (http://www. goodcleanfood. com).
To request samples of Good Clean Food sauces, or to request an interview with President and Founder Kurt Shisler, please contact:
Jen Beltz, Front Burner PR, LLC
Ph: 207/899-2750
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Thom Householder, Front Burner PR, LLC
Ph: 207/653-6122
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