Contadina History
Submitted by madnotes on May 22, 2008
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Contadina History
CONTADINA, a brand name known to American families since World War I, began as a result of the German blockade in 1914. Finding themselves short of imported tomato supplies, three enterprising Italian immigrant families seized the opportunity and began producing tomato paste in White Plains, New York.
In 1916, a member of one of these families discovered that the good soil and dependable climate of California made it better than Italy's Parma Valley and the Naples peninsula for growing tomatoes. Moving to San Jose, California, the family founded the Bell Canto Foods canning company. During the same year, a wholesale grocery business in Chicago became an investor and its...
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