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EDITORIALS
The View From
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BUSINESS
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Mad Annie's
Sauce
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Photos and text by: Rick Schultze
In today’s competitive food sauce marketplace, it’s a rarity to find an individual making and
marketing the product. Most bottled sauces come from companies operating under corporate
umbrellas Ann Kline of Yachats is an exception. She’s the owner and man- ufacturer of Mad
Annie’s Caribbean Ginger Sauce Cooked and prepared in her own kitchen, licensed by the
Oregon Department of Agriculture as a “Food Processing Establishment,” she makes about 15
gallons at a time, package it, and then it’s off to market. About 60 percent of her sales come from a nationwide mail order system, thebalance from direct sales in local stores such as ZRay's Food Place, Lighthouse Deli in South Beach, Clark's Market, Toad Hall, Sea Perch, and The Wine Shop at Michael's.
Her entry into the commercial sauce market came after she had spent time living on San Pedro, an island off the coast of Belize in Central America.
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Mad Annie has her very own web site. Click above to enter her site for
ordering infor-
mation. Or you can E-Mail here at
madannie@trillian.com
Ann Kline, originator of Mad Annie's Caribbean Ginger Sauce, displays some of her creations. For more information write Mad Annie's. P.O.Box 1055. Yachats Oregon 97498, phone 1 541 547-4878.
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After returning to Oregon, she was invited to a potluck and cooked up her own version of a sauce she had tasted on San Pedro. It turned into such a hit that friends kept asking he to make them some.
"It was a snowball effect." she said. I just kept getting requests for it. At the time, I was running a T-shirt shop but with the sauce taking off, I phased the shop out."
"The sauce is really the result of experimentation some of this, some of that, until I found the right combination, "she added.
Another way Kline markets the sauce is through live "demos," where she cooks and gives out free samples. "I always sell a lot of bottles at rhese, and they are fun to do," she said. I enjoy meeting the customers face to face."
"The View From Here" won't change the world but at least it will shed a bit of light on what's
going on around here.
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