Born from Teresa Marzetti’s small Italian restaurant in Columbus, The Marzetti Company makes specialty foods for home kitchens and foodservice, including its well-known dressings and dips. Teresa opened the restaurant in 1896, and demand for her creamy coleslaw and French dressings eventually turned its upstairs into a full-scale factory in 1955. Today, the company carries that Columbus-origin tradition through a broad family of retail and foodservice brands, while investing in modern manufacturing to make its products safely and consistently.
Pasta Ditoni'sSince 1993, Pasta Ditoni’s has centered its work on preserving the traditional Italian way of making pasta. The Columbus company combines distinctive techniques with innovative ingredients to create restaurant-style meals for local chefs, markets, and families across the United States.COLUMBUS, OH
Cortazzo FoodsChef J. Scott Martino’s Cortazzo Foods makes small-batch specialty sauces, including pasta and barbecue sauces, using family recipes and all-natural ingredients. Inspired by a 1937 Cortazzo family wedding photo and recipes from his grandmother Marianina, the Lancaster company gives each product a family connection, while its “Everyone to the Table” mission has supported more than 17,000 donated meals.LANCASTER, 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.
Dress It Up DressingDress It Up Dressing turns a mother’s homemade recipe into bottled salad dressings, made with 100% olive oil and simple ingredients. Founded by Sophia Maroon after her family used the dressing to coax four children into eating vegetables, the company grew from a neighborhood delivery service into a brand sold in more than 1,700 stores nationwide. Its Sesame Tahini dressing has earned two sofi Awards and a 2024 Good Food Award, while the women-owned company is also a certified B Corp.BETHESDA, MD