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Sweet Baby Ray's Wins the Luxist Awards' Readers' Choice Award for Best Gourmet Sauces

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Sweet Baby Ray's is the winner of the Luxist Readers' Choice Award for Best Gourmet Sauces.

The company was founded in 1985 when a local Chicagoan named "Chef Larry" perfected his family's recipe for a sweet and tangy BBQ sauce. He entered it into the country's largest rib cook-off ("The Mike Royko Rib-Off"). Chef Larry called his sauce Sweet Baby Ray's after his younger brother, David, who got the nickname playing basketball on the west side of Chicago.

On the day of the rib-off, Sweet Baby Ray's beat out nearly 700 entrants to come in second--an amazing feat for an unknown. Word of Sweet Baby Ray's spread like wildfire. By 1994, Sweet Baby Ray's distinctive bottle could be found on grill pits and dinner tables across the Midwest. By the end of the century, Sweet Baby Ray's sales in the U.S. exceeded 500,000 cases annually and today, is the fastest growing BBQ sauce company in America.

Gallery: Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce

Sweet Baby Ray's products come in a variety of favors, including: Sweet Baby Ray's Original, Sweet Baby Ray's Honey, Sweet Baby Ray's Hickory & Brown Sugar, Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet 'n Spicy, Sweet Baby Ray's Honey Chiptole and Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet Vidalia Onion. It comes in 18 oz,, 28 oz, 40 oz and 80 oz bottles.

Sweet Baby Ray's gourmet sauces are available for purchase at most large grocery store chains, including Kroger, Walmart, Meijer, Cub Foods, Albertson's, Ralphs, Vons, Safeway, Wegmans and Stop & Shop, among many others. For more information call Sweet Baby Ray's toll free line at (877) 729-2229 or email it at service@sweetbabyrays.com

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Sweet Baby Ray's: The Fastest Growing Barbecue Sauce in America

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Sweet Baby Ray's is a nominee for a Luxist Readers' Choice Award for Best Gourmet Sauces.

The company was founded in 1985 when a local Chicagoan named "Chef Larry" perfected his family's recipe for a sweet and tangy BBQ sauce. He entered it into the country's largest rib cook-off ("The Mike Royko Rib-Off"). Chef Larry called his sauce Sweet Baby Ray's after his younger brother, David, who got the nickname playing basketball on the west side of Chicago.

On the day of the rib-off, Sweet Baby Ray's beat out nearly 700 entrants to come in second--an amazing feat for an unknown. Word of Sweet Baby Ray's spread like wildfire. By 1994, Sweet Baby Ray's distinctive bottle could be found on grill pits and dinner tables across the Midwest. By the end of the century, Sweet Baby Ray's sales in the U.S. exceeded 500,000 cases annually and today, is the fastest growing BBQ sauce company in America.

Gallery: Sweet Baby Ray's Barbecue Sauce

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Dean & DeLuca: Where Epicureans Go for Gourmet Sauces

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Dean & Deluca is a nominee for a Luxist Award for Best Gourmet Sauce
Dean & DeLuca is a nominee for a Luxist Readers' Choice Award for Best Gourmet Sauces.

The company is one of America's finest online grocers -- offering a wide array of food, wine and even kitchenware.

Dean & DeLuca's wide array of gourmet marinades represent just about every corner of the globe. There's a Wine Country marinade, a Moroccan marinade, Argentinean marinade, Vietnamese marinade, Thai and Indian marinades. There's also a delicous Black Truffle barbecue sauce, in addition to a large variety of pasta sauces, pestos, bruschetta toppings, salsas, steak sauces and mole sauces.

Gallery: More from Dean & DeLuca

Today, the website makes the grocer's trademark gourmet sauces, herbs and spices available to those who aren't lucky enough to have a store nearby. Dean & DeLuca also markets its private label products to other retailers and wholesalers throughout the world.

Vote for the Gourmet Sauce that you believe is the best of breed. The voting period runs through July 31 and winners will be announced on August 1.

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Porky's Gourmet Foods: Gourmet Sauces for Over 100 Years

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Porky's Gourmet Foods is a nominee for a Luxist Awards Readers' Choice Award for Best Gourmet Sauces.

Porky's Gourmet Foods & Lynchburg Merchandise Co. was founded in Lynchburg, Tennessee and has been in business since the late 19th century. A family-owned and operated business, it produces gourmet sauces, seasonings & rubs, salsas, relishes, jellies and other condiments. The company's products have won nearly 200 national and international awards.

Its Lynchburg Tennessee Whiskey Brand products all include Jack Daniel's Black Label Whiskey. The products are slow simmered in small batches to insure consistency and old family recipes are used.

The company also offers a Sugar Free Zesty Grilling Sauce, a Bellycheer Habanero Hot Sauce, a Historic Lynchburg line of BBQ sauces, and a large variety of hot sauces.

Porky's Gourmet Foods sauces can be ordered online from Porky's directly. Many of its sauces are also available for purchase through Amazon.com. For more information, contact Porky's at its toll-free number: (800) 767-5911.

Vote for the Gourmet Sauce that you believe is the best of breed. The voting period runs through July 31 and winners will be announced on August 1.

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