3 Local Specialty Food Purveyors Win National Awards
Mad River Distillers Revolution Rye grabbed top honors in the Spirits category.
Three MRV purveyors; Babette’s Table, Mad River Distillers, and Von Trapp Farmstead each won prestigious Good Food Awards. With over 2,000 entries each year, the competition is fierce. In each category, three food crafters from each region receive the honor each year.
Babette’s Table produces old-world style charcuterie, Von Trapp Farmstead makes their famous cheeses while Mad River Distillers has won numerous awards for their craft spirits. Congratulations to our local makers who are working to transform the American food system. All three of the winners products are available at the Mad River Taste Place and other fine local outlets.
Babette’s Finocchiona fennel spiced, aged salami was the winner in the chacouterie category.
The Good Food Foundation exists to celebrate, connect, empower and leverage the passionate and engaged, yet often overlooked, players in the food system who are driving towards tasty, authentic and responsible food in order to humanize and reform American food culture.Through five key programs – the Good Food Awards, Guild, Merchants Alliance, Mercantile and Fund – they build widespread support for the growers, ranchers, makers and merchants stubbornly swimming upstream to create and share the kind of food everyone wants to eat: tasty, authentic and responsible.
Von Trapp Farmstead’s scrumpteous Mt. Alice Cheese won top honors in the Good Food Awards cheese division.
