American Culinary Institute Launches New Look for Its Awards Honoring the Best-Tasting Products in the Food Industry.To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Photo Editors/Dining Editors/Food Writers MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4544909 SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 8, 2004 New ACI ACI American Concrete Institute ACI Arch Coal Inc ACI Airports Council International (formerly Airport Associations Coordinating Council) ACI Automobile Club d'Italia ACI American Competitiveness Initiative Award Medallion Makes It Easier for Consumers to Find Best-Tasting Foods on Grocery Shelves American Culinary Institute (ACI), the leading independent, chef-based organization that judges and awards the best-tasting food products in America, today unveiled its new ACI Award medallion design, the most visible element of the organization's new brand identity launched in September 2003. After extensive consumer research, the award medallion has been refreshed to help shoppers more quickly identify the best-tasting foods, saving them time at the grocery store. Recently, a national consumer survey indicated that what consumers still want most when it comes to food is good taste. ACI Awards are given to America's best-tasting everyday, organic and gourmet foods, and also to the best culinary housewares house·wares pl.n. Cooking utensils, dishes, and other small articles used in a household, especially in the kitchen. . The judging is conducted by a rotating panel of independent, professional and accredited accredited recognition by an appropriate authority that the performance of a particular institution has satisfied a prestated set of criteria. accredited herds cattle herds which have achieved a low level of reactors to, e.g. chefs who follow a rigorous and unbiased process in ACI's state-of-the art judging facility in San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden . Among the requirements for judging is that the product must be widely available throughout the U.S. so a majority of consumers can easily find category winning products. The ACI Award Medallion The new ACI Award medallion features a more eye-catching gold and black design and highlights the award category and year. The design also reflects the role of the professional chef-judges. Each medallion also carries the ACI Web address (www.chefsbest.org) so consumers can find more information about the organization, the judging process and recent product winners. "We believe the professionalism and integrity of the independent chefs and the judging process is reflected in the design of the new ACI Award medallion," said John Parker The name John Parker may refer to any of these people:
ACI Award Winners A few well known examples of ACI Award winners that are now displaying the new ACI medallion on their packaging, promotional materials and advertising include Mrs. Dash Mrs. Dash is a brand name of seasoning marketed by the U.S.-based company Alberto-Culver. The best known varieties of Mrs. Dash are granulated mixtures of dried herbs and spices which are sold in small plastic shaker bottles. Mrs. Seasonings, Brianna's Gourmet Salad Dressings, Chicken of the Sea Tuna, Dole Pineapple Juice, Dreyer's/Edy's Grand Premium Ice Cream, Kellogg's Nutri-Grain Bars, Kraft's Bull's Eye Barbecue Sauce, Kraft's Stovetop stove·top n. The top surface of a stove, especially when used for cooking. adj. Used, prepared, or done on the top of a cooking stove: a stovetop casserole; stovetop cooking. Stuffing, Lifestream Organic Frozen Waffles, Mott's Applesauce, Russell Stover stover stalks of maize plants from which mature corn cobs have been harvested as grain, or grain sorghum plants from which heads have also been removed. The stover is usually fed by turning the cattle into the field and is subject to fungal infection, sometimes causing mycotoxicosis. Chocolates and Sara Lee's Jimmy Dean Bacon. In the coming year, hundreds more award-winning products bearing the new ACI award medallion will be seen on supermarket shelves. To view a full list of current award-winning products, visit the ACI Web site: www.chefsbest.org. The Evaluation Process All products selected for the rigorous testing are identified and purchased by ACI at local supermarkets. In the testing lab, products are stripped of all brand identification and presented to the chef judges with no identification except a bar code. Together, the chef-judges establish the judging criteria for the category, and then evaluate the products independently in private cubicles cubicles individual cow bed spaces separated by half height and half length partitions. Usually located in loose housing cow accommodation in which the cow is free to wander at will. using proprietary software. The judges' scores are captured electronically and tabulated by the computer to determine the category winner. Only one product in each food or food-related category is selected as an ACI Award winner. Each year ACI's chef-panels judge hundreds of categories containing thousands of products to bestow the ACI Awards for Best Taste (retail food and beverage F&B is a common abbreviation in the United States and Commonwealth countries, including Hong Kong. F&B is typically the widely accepted abbreviation for "Food and Beverage," which is the sector/industry that specializes in the conceptualization, the making of, and delivery of foods. ), Best Product (retail food-related equipment) and Best of Class (professional foodservice food and equipment). About American Culinary Institute Headquartered in San Francisco, Calif., American Culinary Institute judges' food products and culinary equipment via panels of accredited, independent professional chefs to determine the best food and culinary brands in America through secure, blind testing blind testing, n a clinical trial in which participants are unaware of whether they are in the experimental or control group of the study. Also called masked. procedures. The ACI chef-based organization was founded in 1985 and has established both a highly trained Chef-Judging Panel and a National Chef Board of culinary leaders, who voluntarily support the organization's mission of honoring the best products in America. When consumers and culinary professionals see the ACI Best Taste, Best Product or Best of Class Award on food and culinary products for retail and foodservice products, they know that it has passed the rigorous tests applied by the ACI chef-based judging panel to uncover and honor the best products in the marketplace. For more information, please visit www.chefsbest.org. MULTIMEDIA AVAILABLE: http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/mmg.cgi?eid=4544909 |
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