One of the products Mr Kooks sells is Made in the USA Sauces. A more complete list of their products is provided by Made in America Secrets, to review their list click here.

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To create an awareness to the American Palate about the rich and diverse INDIAN FLAVOR.
Vision
To make INDIAN FOOD in the U.S. market as popular as any other ethnic cuisine.
Our Story
We have been blending spices in India since 1912 and supplying world over.

U.S. was the only market that we could not enter but were monitoring this market. As the trend of spice consumption started changing in the year 1995 and Americans started to consume more and more spices, we decided to open up the U.S. market. After a thorough research and survey of over 3 years spreaded across the entire country, visiting lots and lots of retail chains ? American and Indian, we came to the conclusion of starting with Indian Sauces.

We saw the availability of all ingredients in the United States except for spices and so we took our first major decision and that was to import the spices from India and get the products co-packed for us in the United States. We want to support the country where we live in and at the same time keeping our products authentic.

We first started sampling our products with Indian grocery stores in the California to ensure that the Indian community liked it and did that for 12 months, personally doing demo's, keeping our kids at day cares and baby sitters to ensure we have first hand experience of the consumer.

Then came time to take the second most important decision. We decided to concentrate only with the main stream American Retail market as that was the real challenge and mission for us and till date we do not sell our products at any single Indian grocer, restaurants or wholesaler in the country. We thought that it would be important to concentrate with the mainstream market rather than have foot in both the markets. We first started selling with Ralphs in California and that is the time tragedy hit us. The first months the products were being placed and Southern California retailers went through a major strike, we had spent a lot of money to promote our product during that time and all went down the drain, it took almost 12 months for the market to come back to normalcy. It delayed our plans by a year. But then slowly and steadily gaining confidence we started expanding first within California.

It has been a slow process to cross the greatest hurdle we face and that was to break the myth of INDIAN FOOD IS SPICY and we are still educating our customers for this. We always joke we had to learn to drive on the left side of the road (India is right side) and so it was rebirth from scratch and it was back to school. Today Mr. Kook's Natural Products are available in over 2000 main stream retail outlets (not a single Indian outlet) and the curries, sauces and marinades are manufactured in the U.S. Our Frozen Tandoori Nan and Frozen Vegetable Samosas are being imported from India as these products were not possible to be done in the U.S. due to the labor process. Our products are all NATURAL and we use the finest ingredient to ensure the true authenticity of INDIAN FLAVOR.

One of the products My Necco sells is Made in the USA Chocolates. A more complete list of their products is provided by Made in America Secrets, to review their list click here.

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New England Confectionery Company, Inc. (NECCO), the oldest multi-line candy company in the United States, produces timeless candy classics such as NECCO? Wafers, Sweethearts? Conversation Hearts, Mary Jane?, Clark?, Haviland? Thin Mints, SkyBar, Mighty Malts?, Candy House? Candy Buttons, Squirrel Nut Zippers?, Masterpieces, Candy Cupboard, and Candy Raisins. Founded in 1847, NECCO celebrated its 160th Anniversary in 2007 and has always been known for product safety and reliability.

NECCO Assorted Wafers consistently rank in the Top 10 in the non-chocolate count good category. NECCO's annual production of approximately 8,000,000,000 Sweethearts during the Valentine's Day season makes NECCO the #1 Valentine's Day non-chocolate supplier.

NECCO's World Corporate Headquarters is located in Revere, MA, near Logan Airport. The company moved to this state-of-the-art candy facility from multiple sites formerly in Cambridge, MA, Pewaukee, WI, and Thibodaux, LA.

The Revere facility has very diverse manufacturing, packaging, and distribution capabilities for:

Sugar Candies: wafers, hearts, lozenges, and dots.
Chocolates Candies: thin mints, double dipped peanuts, chocolate covered raisins, malt balls, boxed chocolates, and molded chocolate bars with multiple fillings.
Chewy Candies: fruit snacks, gummis, jujus, caramels, salt water taffy, and marshmallows.
Packaging capabilities include boxes, cartons, laydown bags, pegboard bags, bars, gift boxes, tubs, and bulk.
NECCO's products enjoy nationwide distribution among all classes of trade, including mass merchandisers, drug stores, dollar stores, supermarkets, wholesalers, convenience stores, specialty retailers, and distributors.

Address:

New England Confectionery Company, Inc.
135 American Legion Highway
Revere, MA 02151

Email: customerservice@necco.com
Website: www.necco.com

One of the products Natures Harmony Farm sells is Made in the USA Cheeses. A more complete list of their products is provided by Made in America Secrets, to review their list click here.

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In 2007, Tim and Liz Young, the original owners of Nature's Harmony Farm, had an awakening. They became completely aware of how utterly unaware they were of where their food came from and how it was produced. Rather than doing something as sensible as simply supporting a local farmers market they did something more radical. They promptly sold their suburban Atlanta home, quit their jobs as a teacher and corporate executive and devoted themselves to the land and the animals, a story they retold in the Amazon bestseller The Accidental Farmers. They had never milked a cow, petted a pig or held a chicken, but dove in head first anyway. They aimed to make a positive difference in the health of the soil, the life of the animals, the quality of nutrition for themselves and others, and to inspire both consumers and anyone who felt a calling to farm.

In 2010 they began milking cows and learned the art of cheese making. Thus began Nature's Harmony Farmstead Cheese. Along the way they fell in love with the old-world style of traditional cheesemaking and visualized cows on pasture every day, farmers doubling as cheese makers and preserving the rich Jersey milk in the form of exquisite cheeses that reflected the farm's local terroir. Something that both the farmers and the community could take pride in.

Today, this tradition continues at Nature's Harmony Farm.

One of the products Nelsons BreenBrier Distillery sells is American Made Bourbon Whiskeys. A more complete list of their products is provided by Made in America Secrets, to review their list click here.

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Charles Nelson was born July 4, 1835 in Hagenow, a small town in the Mecklenburg-Schwerin state of northern Germany. He was the eldest of six children whose father, John Philip Nelson, owned a soap and candle factory. When Charles was 15, his father decided he wanted to move his family to America for a better life. He sold his soap and candle factory, converted all of the family's earthly possessions to gold and had special clothing made to hold all of that gold on his person during the journey. In late October of 1850, he gathered his family and boarded the Helena Sloman to set sail for America. As fate would have it, on November 19 of that year, intense storms and gale force winds sent many of the nearly 180 passengers overboard. John Philip Nelson was one of those unfortunate souls and weighed down by the family fortune, he sank directly to the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. Luckily, the rest of the family arrived safely in New York, but with only the clothes on their backs, and 15 year-old Charles found himself man of the house.

Move to Nashville

Penniless yet determined, Charles and his brother began doing the only thing they knew how to do: make soap and candles. After saving some money, the Nelson family moved west, settling in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was there that Charles, merely 17 years of age, entered the butcher business and acquainted himself with a number of fellow craftsmen who educated him in the art of producing and selling distilled spirits, particularly whiskey.
Nelson's Green Brier Distillery historical photo
Several years later, just before the start of the Civil War, Charles set out for Nashville seeking a fresh start and another American dream took tenuous root. He opened a new grocery store built on the foundation of his three best-selling products: coffee, meat and whiskey. These products quickly built Charles a reputation that went unmatched in Nashville's merchant circles. His honesty and fair dealings brought about great prosperity for his business as well as an elevated social status in the community. Very quickly, Charles realized that the demand for his whiskey far exceeded his supply, revealing to him the opportunity to focus solely on whiskey.

Beginnings of a Distillery
Charlie Nelson and the rest of the Green Brier Distillery family
Legend has it the blend of coffee was brought to the Maxwell House Hotel in downtown Nashville, where patrons would later proclaim it as good to the last drop. The butcher stayed in business and the store soon grew into a successful Nashville-based food and grocery chain that is still in business today. As for Charles, he bought the distillery that was making his whiskey in Greenbrier, TN, and a patent for improved distillation, and expanded the production capacity in order to keep up with demand. With this expansion, Nelson was not only creating more jobs, he was making a name for Tennessee Whiskey. By 1885, there were hundreds of whiskey distilleries in Tennessee, but only a handful was producing significant volume. The three most notable were Cascade (now George Dickel), Jack Daniel's, and Charles Nelson's Green Brier Distillery. That year, Charles Nelson sold nearly 380,000 gallons of Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey in markets ranging from Jacksonville, FL to San Francisco, CA to Paris, France, while Jack Daniel's production capacity was just 23,000 gallons. In addition to the volume he sold of his own whiskey, Nelson was one of the first to actually bottle and sell whiskey rather than selling it by the jug or the barrel. The distillery, which was commonly known as Old Number Five due to the fact that it was registered distillery number five and was located in the fifth tax district, became a favorite stop of federal regulators and tax inspectors due to the warmth and hospitality shown to them by Nelson and his employees. It is safe to say that by introducing the category of Tennessee Whiskey to the world and offering a superior product, Charles Nelson had indeed become a household name.
Prohibition and history at Nelson's Green Brier Distillery
Prohibition
After decades of great struggle and brilliant triumph, Charles Nelson passed away on December 13, 1891. His wife Louisa assumed control of the business, becoming one of the only women to ever run a distillery. In 1909, statewide Prohibition forced Louisa to discontinue operations and Nelson's Green Brier Distillery closed its doors. Presently, the grain house and a barrel warehouse stand, the spring still runs, and the property is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Now

On a hot summer day in 2006, Bill Nelson invited his two sons, Andy and Charlie, to go see a butcher in Greenbrier, Tennessee. As the three men drove to Greenbrier, they recalled the stories that had been passed down to them about the family whiskey business that had been located in the small town.

When the trio arrived and started asking questions about the old Nelson Distillery, the butcher, Chuck, could hardly contain his excitement. Look across the street over there, Chuck exclaimed. Your granddaddy built that warehouse. This street is Distillery Road, you know, and that spring, it's never stopped running. It's as pure as pure can be.

Bill, Andy and Charlie eagerly walked over to explore the land that was once home to the nation's largest producer and supplier of Tennessee Whiskey. After quenching their thirst with the crisp, cool spring water, Chuck pointed them in the direction of the Greenbrier Historical Society.

Here, the Nelsons met with the curator, who revealed her most prized possessions: two original bottles of Nelson's Green Brier Tennessee Whiskey.
The history of Nelson's Green Brier Distillery goes back for generations.
For a moment, time stood still.

It was love at first sight. Charlie and Andy stared at the perfectly preserved bottles and then looked back at one another, knowing what the other was thinking: This is our destiny.

With sincere conviction, they made a pact to bring the family whiskey business back to life.

After three years of research, planning and hard work, the Nelsons re-formed the business that had closed exactly 100 years earlier in 1909 during Prohibition. With the spirit in their blood, Charlie and Andy followed their hearts, devoting their lives to resurrecting Nelson's Green Brier Whiskey and producing top-quality product, appreciated by aficionados everywhere.
About Charlie & Andy Nelson
Andy and Charlie Nelson of Nelson's Green Brier Distillery
Andy and Charlie Nelson of Nelson's Green Brier Distillery

Brothers Andy Nelson and Charlie Nelson have always had a lot in common. Both graduated from Loyola Marymount with degrees in the Humanities concentrating on Philosophy, both are history buffs, true southern gentlemen and proud of their family roots. But when they set out to resurrect Nelson's Green Brier Distillery, founded in the 1800s by their great-great-great grandfather Charles Nelson, the boys realized their kinship ran deeper than blood. They both had spirit pulsing through their veins. So in their mere 20s, the Nelson brothers have set on a grand journey?not just to make and sell whiskey?but to rebuild a business that helped bring the term 'Tennessee Whiskey' to America and Europe. Through researching, seeking capital, crafting brands from Charles Nelson's original recipes and putting bottles of their small-batch bourbon on shelves, they are the essence of the American dream and spirit.

One of the products NK Hursts Company sells is Made in the USA Bean Soups. A more complete list of their products is provided by Made in America Secrets, to review their list click here.

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The N.K. Hurst Company was established in 1938 by Needham King Hurst as a distributor of coffee, tea and sugar. Mr. Hurst had worked with the C.D. Kenney Company as a sales representative when he decided to go into business on his own. 9 years later, he began packaging dry edible beans into 5 pound packages for the grocery trade. His decision would lay the groundwork for the future of our company.

As the years went on, Hurst began packaging dry beans for many retail customers including the A&P Tea Company, Winn-Dixie, and Kroger. The Hurst brand became widely known as a top quality product.

In the mid 1960's, Mr. Hurst went to an acquaintance who was a chemist and asked him to create a dry ham flavoring. The result would be a line of seasoned dry bean products under the brand name Hurst's HamBeens?. In 1986, we introduced our HamBeens? 15 Bean Soup? which includes 15 varieties of beans and peas, along with our famous ham seasoning packet.

Today, our HamBeens? products are sold in every region of the United States. We are distributed from Maine to California and from Alaska to Florida. Our seasoned dry beans have expanded to nearly 20 items including Cajun 15 Bean Soup?, Spanish-American Black Bean Soup?, Pasta Fagioli, and Confetti Lentil Soupreme?.