Our deeply rooted family food heritage reaches back to the mid-19th century, when Amedeo Pastorelli founded a food distribution business near Rome. Continuing that tradition, our family then became partners in one of the first tomato canning operations in California, facilitated North America’s first olive crushing to make olive oil, and introduced the first fully prepared pizza sauce in 1952.

Five generations later, Pastorelli Foods continues our legacy of innovation in the heart of downtown Chicago, where we have been manufacturing high-quality pizza sauce, pizza crust, vinegar, oils, and tomatoes since the 1950s.