Myron's Fine Foods Inc Information

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.