Popinsanity® is committed to showing the world that popcorn is a gourmet delicacy that deserves to be savored to the very last sweet bite. They spent years refining a selection of premium ingredients, methods of small batch production, innovative, expanding flavor profile, and methods of packaging presentation, culminating to form the highest gourmet popcorn product out there.
The story of Bear Food peanuts is as much about Mac Brydon as it is about his best friend and older brother, Miller. Miller has Down’s Syndrome. Brydon said this is the typical story for many people with special needs across the country, the majority of which are unemployed. He wanted to change that, so he created Bear Food — a hand-cooked gourmet peanut company that gives people with disabilities a chance to learn job skills and responsibilities. Bear Food’s jumbo gourmet peanuts are cooked by a supplier using a time-honored Virginia recipe that’s been handed down by generations.
East Shore Speciality Foods is a women-owned company founded by Jeri Mesching. She started with one product, Sweet and Tangy Mustard. The label shows her family home which is on the east shore of a small lake, hence the name East Shore Specialty Foods. Her old-fashioned cooked mustard was far too special to be served with an ordinary pretzel so she developed East Shore Seasoned Pretzels as a companion for the mustard.
The Chocolatier was founded by Aneesh Popat. Voted as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners, Popat is an award winning chocolatier and an ambassador of fine chocolate. Their mission is to "change the world one chocolate at a time". Every chocolate expertly made and savored, makes a positive difference by contributing to the education and materials for children in India. The Chocolatier also focuses on carefully sourcing ethical cacao from plantations to support the conservation of nature and wildlife.
Dardimans California began crisping around their own kitchen table, using unmatched quality and flavor of California citrus readily available in their founder's backyard. Female Founder Ani Babayan and her father dehydrated their first batch of fruit at home, recreating their family’s Armenian recipes and using oranges from a tree in their backyard. One year later, Ani left law school to work full time on Dardimans, and since then has grown the brand into an international leader in the industry.
