Review of the Fancy Food Show Summer 2023

WOW! What a great Fancy Food Show! I haven’t said that for a few years, but this one was truly spectacular. For each show, we make a list of customers and good friends we want, need, or would like to see at the show. It is an impressive list, but we have been coming up short except for this year This year was different, and by the show's end, we had seen all but one on our list--an incredible percentage of contacts. By the way, De Medici Imports is one of a few companies with the special “Members for 25 Years” status and in my 16 years of it I would almost say this was the best

EWWhy was this year's show so great, you ask? Of course, introducing our newest family member, Cipriani, to our portfolio didn’t hurt, nor did it hurt that we won a Gold sofi for the Cipriani Tagliolini Delicata Egg White Pasta It also could have been our introduction of many new products to come One is the three new canned seafood items from Portomar smoked mussels, small sardines, and the highly anticipated “Tapas Kit Trio” of sardines, mussels, and squid Another addition is our newest, exclusive flavor from Edmond Fallot-- Smoked Paprika and Honey Dijon Mustard; a flavor profile inspired by De Medici Imports, actually! Lastly, another item on the way this Fall from Miraval is their Estate Lavender Honey. Of course, I would be remiss if I didn’t mention that our old friend Massimo Bottura’s visit certainly had an added impact in our booth by ramping up the energy when he stopped by to crack a wheel of Atalanta’s Parmigiano Reggiano cheese. What an incredible person as well as one of our finest producers. The show's success this year could have also been the collaboration of our 30 or so GOLD sofi awards won throughout the years here at the Fancy Food Show, with our most recent NYIOOC Awards or I seem to be bragging again, aren’t I? I’ll stop here

Suffice it to say, it was a great show, and a great week Thanks to all of you who visited, and for those who may have missed us, send us or me an email, and I’ll be glad to discuss it personally now

Thank you again!

Steve Kaufman, Executive Vice President, skaufman@demedici com