Family-owned MID’S True Sicilian Pasta Sauce makes jarred pasta and pizza sauces from recipes handed down through founder Mideo’s Sicilian family. Based in Ohio, the company still follows Mideo’s original method, slow-simmering fresh ingredients in open kettles for two hours rather than steaming them, with each jar carrying 28 ounces of sauce.
Grandpa Pete's Sunday SauceRooted in the Serro family’s Sicilian heritage, Grandpa Pete’s Sunday Sauce makes small-batch tomato sauces and homemade-style pasta from all-natural ingredients. The recipes trace back to Pete Serro’s mother and grandmother, carried from Alcamo, Sicily, to Brooklyn and later jarred by his son Charlie and family. Made in New York, the company sells its sauces and dinner packs across the Northeast and online.
DelGrosso Foods IncTracing its roots to an Italian immigrant’s pasta-sauce recipe from 1914, DelGrosso Foods makes pasta sauce as America’s oldest major family-owned producer in the category. Founded by Ferdinand and Mafalda DelGrosso, the company remains part of a family of food businesses that also includes prepared foods for fundraisers and takeout.TIPTON, PA
Jule's Tomato SauceJule’s Tomato Sauce makes small-batch jarred tomato sauces from the recipe Pa Vitelli first cooked at his Jersey City restaurant in 1962. After Jule’s Italian Restaurant served the Westside Avenue neighborhood for more than 40 years, his children brought that unchanged sauce back to home kitchens, including the red sauce used in the restaurant’s famously towering lasagna. The company also supplies its marinara to food-service kitchens in five-gallon packaging.
Michael's of BrooklynSince 1964, family-owned and operated Michael’s of Brooklyn has paired a Brooklyn, New York Italian restaurant with a nationally sold line of pasta sauces cooked and packed at the source. Now in its third generation, the business carries family recipes into its dining room and ships sauces, pasta and biscotti beyond the neighborhood. Michael’s is also known for its substantial Italian menu and a dining room that has become a gathering place for politicians and power brokers.BROOKLYN, NY