I always kind of enjoyed the Chef Boiarde’s sauce spicing. Genius.
He was originally hired to produce C-rations and spicing during World War II and that’s how he got his kickstart into the corporate end of the business.
[WIKI] “Ettore Boiardi (October 22, 1897 – June 21, 1985), better known by the Anglicized name Hector Boyardee, was an Italian-American chef, famous for his eponymous brand of food products, named Chef Boyardee.”
I used to love chef boyardee.
Recently it gives tummy aches.
Might just be age (my own)?
Never recall seeing Ms. Cargo though.
But Chef Boiardi reportedly did some short time as a chef at the Greenbrier, IIRC.
One of my favorite places, except for one time when I was boiling hot and I took off my blazer in the dining room and one of the waiters snapped at me.
It's all good.
“He was originally hired to produce C-rations and spicing during World War II and that’s how he got his kickstart into the corporate end of the business.”
Ahh....NO.
Ettore Boiardi went to work at a local hotel in Piacenza, Italy at the age of 11.
Boiardi came to America in 1914 and joined the culinary staff at the Plaza Hotel in New York and became the Head Chef a year later.
Boiardi opened his own restaurant, Il Giardino d’italia, in Cleveland, Ohio in 1924.
He also started selling his own sauces to customers to customers sometimes afterwards.
All that BEFORE WW2.
https://www.chefboyardee.com/articles/hector-boiardi-chefs-resume