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Coupla Guys Foods was started by Joe Rowley, Roy Welland, & Richard
Kimmel in 2002 and is located in that toddlin' town where Frank first
saw a guy dancin' with his wife. (We've always wondered why he didn't
get mad.)
When Joe told his brother Rob that he was thinking of putting some of
our food inventions in jars and marketing them under the trademark,
"A Couple,
Two, Tree Guys Dat Like ta Cook",
he said, "Cool. . . . What made ya come up with that?"
The short answer is we're just a couple-two-three guys who like to eat.
By itself that makes us as unique as tofu in a health spa. But several
other things do set us apart.
When we started out, we had no specific training or educational
credentials in food preparation. We've not graduated from, taken cooking
classes at, or even been inside the CIA or Cordon Bleu. What we did then
and do now is cook great tasting food, drink good wine and spirits, and
enjoy it all.
Not one of us has ever owned a restaurant, nor had we ever waited
tables, bussed dishes, or tended bar. But that's not true any more
because Roy now owns, along with other brilliant foodies, one of the
best restaurants in Manhattan. It’s called “Cru” because, like wines
with that designation, it’s top drawer.
Although we're largely self-taught, we are nevertheless well studied,
well traveled, and definitely well practiced. (We not only watch cooking
shows on television, we pay attention.)
We've been studying food and wine for about 15 years in a serious,
life-style kind of way. We read the masters and practice what they
preach. We experiment with recipes endlessly and discuss and argue about
food combinations, wine matches, and cooking techniques. And we have a
great, raucous time doing it.
Finally, there is another reason we got interested in cooking great food
and drinking good wine. We like women. And, with absolutely no
statistical data to back this up. . . . All women love it when guys cook
good.
So with credentials like these we were destined to own a food
manufacturing company.
While we try not to take ourselves too seriously (after all, we're just
a coupla guys who like to cook), we are very serious about the food we
make.
We decided early on that if we were going to put some of our food in
jars, it had to taste exactly like it does when we make it in the
kitchen. That's because, as our tag line says (in all modesty), this
“Stuff is the Best Stuff in the history of stuff."
So go back to our "products" page and buy a jar of
Serious Sesame Sauce,
Awesome Arrabiata,
Perfect Puttanesca,
Terrific Tapenade,
Buoy Base,
Creme de la Crimini Sauce, or
Marvelous Marinara sauce Nah, on second thought, buy
one or several of each. That way you won't have to wait for the next
shipment to arrive.
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