Chef Boyardee
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Chef Boyardee is a brand of canned pasta products sold internationally by ConAgra Foods. Named after its founder, Italian-American immigrant Ettore Boiardi, the line began production in the United States in the 1920s. Along with its canned products, Chef Boyardee also markets boxed pizza and lasagna mixes.[1]
[edit] History
In 1924, Boiardi opened the Giardino d'Italia restaurant at East 9th Street and Woodland Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.[2] The product line which would become Chef Boyardee began when satisfied restaurant customers began asking Boiardi for his recipe and samples of his ingredients. As demand outgrew his restaurant kitchen, he opened a factory in 1928, moving production to Milton, Pennsylvania ten years later. Upon mass distribution, he decided to name his product "Boy-Ar-Dee" to help Americans properly pronounce his name.
The product line was sold to American Home Foods, later renamed International Home Foods, over difficulties arising from the company's rapid growth.[citation needed] The brand was distributed for consumption by the American military. The parent company was later purchased by ConAgra Foods, which continues to produce a line of Chef Boyardee canned pastas bearing Boiardi's likeness.
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[edit] External links
- Hector Boiardi (Encyclopedia of Cleveland History)
- Cleveland People: Chef Boyardee (Cleveland Museum of Art)
- Gallery of classic graphic design featuring Chef Boyardee
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