Two River Mushroom Broth to Compete for sofi™ Gold Product of the Year at 2023 Summer Fancy Food Show
Millstone, NJ (May 12, 2023) – Two River Mushroom Broth has been named the 2023 sofi™ Gold Product Award Winner in the Soup/Broth category. The Specialty Food Association’s (SFA) sofi™ Awards are a top honor in the $175 billion specialty food industry.
This year, the sofi™ Awards recognized a Gold Winner and a New Product Winner in each of 53 specialty food and beverage product categories. Nearly 2,000 products from domestic and international makers entered the 2023 competition.
“We are honored that our Mushroom Broth has won a sofi™ Gold Product Award,” says K.C. Sullivan, founder of Two River Mushroom. “Our team is so excited to share this with everyone! We started this project several years ago in conjunction with restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach and came up with this
amazing recipe. Local food scientists at Rutgers Food Innovation lab and the University of North Carolina Food Innovation Lab supported us and allowed us to fine tune our recipe and process.”
Two River Mushroom Broth is made with organic Lion's Mane and Shiitake Mushrooms and 20 other simple ingredients to create a broth that has a beautiful, savory, umami flavor. Delicious as a sipping drink, it can also be substituted for stock and pairs well with a variety of recipes, from simple miso soups and Ramen, to the base for vegetarian gravy.
For thousands of years, mushrooms have been used to support immune health and promote overall wellness. Made with simple, high-quality and recognizable ingredients without preservatives Two River Mushroom Broth is a new culinary use of ancient ingredients.
“As entrepreneurs, we want to create the best possible product for our customers, and this award is the ultimate stamp of approval and a testament to our dedication,” Sullivan adds.
Two River Mushroom Broth will now compete against other category winners for the 2023 sofi™ Gold Product of the Year Award, which will be selected and announced at the Summer Fancy Food Show, June 25- 27 in New York City. The Summer Fancy Food Show is the largest business-to-business specialty food industry event in North America.
“The sofi™ Awards recognize the best, most innovative products in the Specialty Food Industry and the creative, passionate people who make them,” said SFA President Bill Lynch. “Winning a sofi™ Award can open doors to new markets and expand business opportunities for the winners, which is central to the SFA’s work on behalf of its member makers and manufacturers.”
SFA partners with Rutgers Food Innovation Center in Bridgeton, NJ for sofi™ Awards judging and logistics management. Entries were judged strictly on a blind basis—without packaging, pricing, or any brand
identification. Products were judged on taste—including flavor, appearance, texture, and aroma—ingredient quality, and innovation.
About Two River Gourmet Mushroom LLC
Two River Gourmet Mushroom was founded in 2014 by K.C. Sullivan. Currently providing gourmet organic Mushrooms to more than fifty of Central New Jersey’s finest restaurants such as Anjelica’s, Gabriella’s, Blu Grotto, Jasper Stone, and Red Horse by David Burke. Two River Gourmet Mushroom supplies 25 retail locations such as Sickles, Delicious Orchards, Nature’s Corner, Foodtown and ShopRite, as well as several local farmers’ markets and CSAs.
Situated on Mighty Dare Farm, a 25-acre parcel of farmland preserve in historic Millstone, N.J., Two River Gourmet Mushroom grows high quality USDA Organic mushrooms for the passionate, knowledgeable, and creative chef or home cook who desires only the finest ingredients. The vision of the dual enterprise between Two River Gourmet Mushroom and Mighty Dare Farm is to create a unique setting to produce organic gourmet mushrooms and complement each other in a biodynamic, regenerative relationship.
About the Specialty Food Association
The not-for-profit Specialty Food Association (SFA) is the leading membership trade association and source of information about the $175 billion specialty food industry. Founded in 1952 in New York City, the SFA prides itself on being an organization by the members and for the members, representing thousands of specialty food makers and manufacturers, importers, retailers, buyers, distributors, brokers, and others in the trade. The SFA owns and operates the Fancy Food Shows—which are the largest specialty food industry events in North America—as well as the sofi™ Awards—which have honored excellence in specialty food and beverage annually since 1972. The SFA produces the Trendspotter Panel annual predictions, the State of the Specialty Food Industry Report, Today's Specialty Food Consumer research, the Spill & Dish podcast, year-round educational programming for professionals at every stage in their business journey, and SFA Feed, the industry's go-to daily source for news, trends and new product information. Find out more online and connect with SFA on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, and TikTok.
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