Company History

Myron’s Fine Foods was established by Myron Becker, an authority on Japanese cooking techniques. He is a professional research chef with academic degrees in food service management and psychology.

Myron was first exposed to Asian cooking while serving the US Navy in Yokohama, Japan in the early 1960’s. When not intercepting Russian radio messages, Myron and his Navy friends would eat at traditional Japanese yakitori houses. To find out how the chefs created these sauces, Myron hid behind barrels in the back of the restaurant kitchens until the chefs discovered him and threw him out

Upon his return from duty, Myron was disappointed to find that the salty, sweet, gooey, corn syrup and gum laden sauces available in the US did not resemble the subtle and delicate renditions that he remembered from Japan. This was the inspiration for “Myron’s #1 Yakitori,” a food concession wagon based on a Japanese yakitori house. Myron set up his pushcart on the streets of Amherst, MA as well as traveling to fairs, festivals, and craft shows.
In 1987, as Myron’s pushcart became a larger trailer, customer demand to bottle his sauces increased. When a young mother with a child on her back emptied her baby’s bottle so that she could fill it with Chef Myron’s sauce, Myron capitulated and began to bottle sauce and sell it from the concession trailer.

Eventually the owner of a natural food store in Washington, DC area acquired a bottle and asked for more stock on her shelves. In 1992 serious retail production and distribution began. In 1993 when Myron discovered that a highly placed Boston chef was purchasing large quantities of the sauce for use in his restaurant, the company began packaging for the food service industry.

Chef Myron’s sauces can be found anywhere specialty foods are taken seriously and are used in food service operations as varied as white tablecloth restaurants, nursing homes, hospitals, educational institutions, caterers and country inns. Our products are delivered through a diverse group of specialty food and “Broadline” distributors throughout the US.