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Myron's Fine Foods, Inc. was established by Myron Becker, an authority
on Japanese cooking techniques. Myron was first exposed to Asian cooking
techniques while serving with the US Navy and National Security Agency
in Yokohama, Japan in the early 1960s. When he was not intercepting
and decoding Russian radio messages, Myron and his friends would eat
at yakitori houses - restaurants that served skewered meats
dipped in sauces and grilled (yakimono). Each yakitori
house had its own signature sauce. To find out how the chefs created
their food, Myron hid behind barrels at the back of restaurants until
the cooks discovered him and threw him out. Those sauces were the
inspiration for his yakitori food concession venture, where
he tried to re-create the yakitori houses of Japan. He first
set a push cart up on the streets of Amherst, Massachusetts, and soon
after began taking it to music festivals, fairs, and craft shows.
In 1987, as
Myron's No. 1 Yakitori expanded from a cart to a large trailer, the customer demand to
bottle his sauces for their use at home increased. When a young mother with her child on
her back emptied her baby's bottle so that he could fill it with sauce, Myron capitulated
and packed the sauce in 16 oz. bottles to sell over the counter of his concession trailer.
Eventually, the owner of a natural food store in the Washington,
DC area acquired a bottle and asked to stock the product on her
shelves. In the summer of 1992, Myron leased a large food production
space in Orange, Massachusetts and commenced serious production.
In 1993 Myron discovered a highly placed Boston chef purchasing
an armload of sauce for use in his restaurant. Taking the not so
subtle clue, Myron started packaging his products for the food service
industry in 64 ounce jugs, 5 gallon pails and 55 gallon drums.
Twelve years later, CHEF MYRONS sauces can be found almost anywhere
specialty foods are taken seriously and used in food service operations
as diverse as white tablecloth restaurants, nursing homes, educational
institutions, caterers and country inns. CHEF MYRON'S sauces are
rapidly becoming available in the natural, specialty or oriental
sections of many supermarket chains.
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