10th Good Food Awards Recognizes Dean’s Sweets Maine Sea Salt Caramel sauce!
Dean’s Sweets Maine Sea Salt Caramel Sauce was named a 2020 Good Food Award Winner in the “Confections” category at a gala in San Francisco’s War Memorial & Performing Arts Center on January 17, 2020, with a thousand people in attendance. The Portland, Maine chocolatier was among 219 winners among the nation’s leading food crafters, grocers, chefs, journalists and activists gathered for the annual recognition program now in its tenth year.
The award-winning caramel sauce distinguishes itself from others with the high-quality sourcing of ingredients and the simplicity of the recipes. The caramel sauce consists of demerara sugar, house-made invert sugar syrup, Smiling Hill heavy cream, Casco Bay butter, and just the right touch of Maine sea salt. The sauce is preservative free, gluten free, nut free, and soy free. Jars are 9oz, priced at $12.50, excluding shipping. Wooden custom-made gift crates are also available.
Recommendations for eating?
With ice cream as the perfect sundae topping (we even have a cherry for the top – chocolate-covered, of course); with apple slices; over bread pudding, or directly from a spoon.
The Good Food Awards celebrates American food and drink crafters who demonstrate a commitment to creating tasty, authentic and responsible products and in doing so, bettering our nation’s food system. Each of the 2020 winners demonstrates both a mastery of their craft and a commitment to maintaining exceptionally high social and environmental standards in their work.
All of the Finalists – including 113 companies (28%) that have never won before – partner with hundreds of farmers, ranchers and fishermen to actively build a better food system. Finalists from across the 17 categories are crafting food that is good for both consumers and the environment, favoring practices that build soil health for generations to come without the use of pesticides and herbicide, emphasizing fairness and transparency from seed to plate, promoting safe and enjoyable working environments, and safeguarding biodiversity by creating products free of genetically modified ingredients.
The gala Award Ceremony was highlighted by an affirmation from Director Sarah Weiner of why, at this particular moment in time, the work of the 219 winners – each one a talented artisan, local business owner and sustainability advocate – is so important: “Each of you is a living example of something that is impossible to imagine for so many people. Leaving a corporate job to join a rural economy; transforming one’s body and life through a curiosity for real food; reinvigorating an entire coastal community with a delicious idea. The 219 stories in this room make the impossible feel possible. You show us it can be done. Open our minds. Help us grow our gardens. That is your legacy.”
Dean and Kristin Bingham are co-owners of Dean’s Sweets, now celebrating 15 years of making and selling chocolate in Portland. Dean’s Sweets is known for their elegant, hand-dipped truffles, caramels, buttercreams, sauces, and other seasonal confections, created in Maine from the finest imported chocolate and the highest-quality local ingredients. Dean’s Sweets’ truffles and sauces are made in small batches in downtown Portland, without any preservatives, nuts, or nut products. Most chocolates are gluten free, and several are dairy free and vegan. Dean’s Sweets ships across the US and worldwide, and can be purchased online or in person at 475 Fore St. and 54 Cove St., Portland, Maine. Phone orders are also welcomed at 207-899-3664.
Contact Katherine Harris
The Good Food Awards
415.447.3268
katherine@goodfoodfdn.org
