The 2015 Good Food Awards upped its own ante with a 3 day extravaganza, beginning with an entertaining and crisp Good Food Awards ceremony, followed by the first retailer-targeted “un-fancy un-trade show” called the Good Foods Mercantile, and finally the Good Foods Marketplace which always features current winners at the SF Ferry Building.
See 2015 award winners and enjoy a visual taste of just a few products and producers that tickled my palate and fancy at the various events. (And if you’re into eloquent speeches, read the text of Sarah Weiner’s closing remarks to understand the power behind these awards.)
Ignoring business as usual, you build companies that feel like families, transform cities into tight knit communities, and support every social cause with a keg of beer or wheel of cheese. – Sarah Weiner
- Welcome to the 2015 Good Food Awards marketplace
- Deliciously infused CaliVirgin olive oils
- Flavored moonshine is a winner
- Venus spirits, made in Santa Cruz
- Love the new Guittard chocolate logo
- Guittard chocolate
- Umeboshi won at the 2015 Good Food Awards
- Face of food craft
- Prosciuitto THIS
- Pacific Pickle pickled string beans
- La Tourangelle, winners for roasted pistachio and walnut oils
- Johnson Berry Farm preserves winners
- Zoe Chocolates at Good Food Awards
- Feve Chocolatier, winner for chai spice almonds
- 2015 Good Food Awards marketplace at the Ferry Building
- Black Dinah Chocolatier – Good Food Awards winners 2015
- Little Apple Granola, a farm and award winner caramel maker http://littleapplegranola.com
- 2015 Good Food Awards confections winners
- Ruth Reichl enthralls us
- Coffee winners line up at the 2015 Good Food Awards
- Presenting the Good Food Awards 2015 winners
- Sarah Weiner delivers an epic speech at the Good Food Awards
- Napa Cakes Panforte team
- Michelle of Nana Joes Granola
- Lots of cheese at the Good Food Awards Mercantile 2015
- Emily sampling Ancient Heritage Dairy cheese
- Zingerman’s love
- Askinosie Chocolate, Good Food Awards 2015 chocolate winner
- Sweet Dragon has won multiple Good Food Awards Confections awards
- The team behind Stacey’s Bodacious Bacon Beer Brittle stacyssweetspot.com
- Good Food Awards Confections winners, 2015
- Mega peanut butter and jelly chocolate bar, a Good Food Awards winner
- Tasting Ocho Candy
- Jeni’s Ice Cream team
- Jeni’s Salty Caramel Sauce, Good Food Awards winner 2015
- Kika’s Treats, a San Francisco treat made by Crirstina Arantes
- Charm School Chocolate’s fun presentation
- Tasting bitters in a cocktail, of course
- Cocktail syrups at the Mercantile
- Hanson organic vodka, Good Food Awards 2015 winner

Behind the scenes at Confections judging, this particularly well done label caught my eye. You can never over-instruct a busy team awards team! (The maker won….not because of the instructions though.)