Farm-to-table jam company Gables Delight has won a 2024 Good Food Award recognizing its incredible taste and equally impressive commitment to sustainability. Gables Delight's winning products are its mango jam, papaya jam, and mango papaya Scotch bonnet spicy jam.
Gables Delight is a preserves company with all-natural ingredients and no artificial flavors or colors. Founder Almudena Gudiel grew up in France, where she learned to make jams at a young age. Almudena later received a culinary degree in Florida and proceeded to work in top restaurants in Miami before starting her jam business.
Founder Almudena Gudiel grew up in France, where she learned to make jams at a young age.
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Founded by Carolina Quijano, she never imagined her passion project would turn into the first urban chocolate factory in her hometown.
According to Quijano, after visiting Paris and trying delicious chocolate, she visited a farmers' market in Miami where she tasted "life-changing" hot chocolate, one with simple yet rich and robust flavors, which reminded her of the comfort of sipping Colombian hot chocolate.
That's all it took to awaken the chocolatier in her; the rest is history.
Exquisito Chocolates will soon move into a state-of-the-art facility more than double its size in Little Havana this May.
Held annually, the Good Food Awards covers 16 categories — from oils to spirits to grains — preliminarily judged with a blind taste test. From there, finalists are scored on various environmental and social responsibility benchmarks, and the winners are named by region.
The 200 winners were selected out of 2,000 entries. They also met the environmental and social responsibility standards of the Good Food Awards.
