The Good Food Awards announced the 2019 winners for the country's best makers and artisans on Friday evening at the San Francisco War Memorial & Performing Arts Center. This year's winners (see the full list below) were selected from over 2,035 entries and include Bay Area food makers like San Leandro brewery Cleophus Quealy, Sonoma yogurt producer St. Benoit and Bay Area chocolate veteran Guittard. Healdsburg's Shed, which recently closed its brick-and-mortar location but will continue to sell products online, took home two awards — for its trout rillette and raspberry rose preserves. It's the ninth year for the Bay Area craft food-focused organization's annual awards. If there's one thing that's changed over the years, says Good Food Foundation executive director Sarah Weiner, it's consumers' level of awareness. According to Weiner, the artisan craft food movement has "never been so prolific as it is now." Looking ahead, plans are in the works to expand beyond the United States by inviting some of the world's best craft food producers to participate in 2020. "At this moment when there's so much talk about us versus them, (we) thought it would be nice to affirm how, actually, commerce can work symbiotically with other… Read full this story
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