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Edible Philly: 2020 Local Heroes

Share Food Program executive director George Matysik
Share Food Program executive director George Matysik

Each year, we honor the trailblazers in Philadelphia’s local food scene with our Local Hero awards.

A group of Edible Philly readers, contributors and past Local Hero award winners put forward nominees, and our editorial team chose 2020’s honorees. The tastemakers profiled in the following pages make our local food community more vibrant every year.

Danny Childs

2020 Edible Philly Local Hero – Beverage Artisan: Danny Childs of The Farm and Fisherman

COULD A HIGH-VOLUME restaurant in the suburbs have one of the best bar programs in the Philly area?
Chef Anthony Andiario

2020 Edible Philly Local Hero – Chef: Anthony Andiario

​​​​​​​CHEF ANTHONY ANDIARIO has always been into pasta.
John Glick of Tenderleaf Meadows

2020 Edible Philly Local Hero – Farm: Sunny Harvest Collective

A DECADE AGO, five Lancaster-based Amish farmers decided to band together to sell their crops through a CSA.
Chris Wright and Gina Rubinetti

2020 Edible Philly Local Hero – Food Artisan: Pasta Lab

HAVING WORKED IN CATERING for more than a decade, Chris Wright and Gina Rubinetti are into food.
Carmella Lanni and Carlo Giardina

2020 Edible Philly Local Hero – Grocer: V Marks the Shop

WHEN PHILLY’S ONLY ALL-VEGAN grocery store opened in late 2018, it became a go-to shopping destination for vegans and omnivores
George Matysik

2020 Edible Philly Local Hero – Non-Profit: Share Food Program

WITH A REACH of 700,000 people monthly, Share Food Program is the Philadelphia region’s largest hunger relief organization.

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