What a fantastic start to 2016 - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce Dia del Perro took home 1st Place Flat Art > Product Label, and won the Grand Prize for the Advertising & Marketing Division!
Woohoo! Can't wait to show off my banner in New Mexico, and the custom Disk-It BBQ is a fantastic prize to take home!
Love & hot sauce
Scott
Since the inception of Lucky Dog Hot Sauce, I've been committed to sourcing locally whenever possible, and often at greater cost to produce my products. As such, it is both personally rewarding and a huge honor professionally to be recognized as a part of this community of responsible food producers.
The 2016 Good Food Awards winners will be notified in the coming weeks. While of course I'd love to win, I'm beyond thrilled to have Lucky Dog Hot Sauce named a finalist in a field of nearly 2000 products.
The Good Food Awards are something special, transcending "hot sauce awards", as a celebration of integrity, sustainability, and responsibility in food production.
I'm incredibly psyched to be a part of this year's Good Food Awards, and to be named as a finalist is a dream come true. I always strive to improve as a sauce maker, so it is especially awesome that this is for my newest product, Brown Label.
Wish me luck in the coming weeks - looking at the field of finalists, I'll need it!
Love & Hot Sauce
Scott
Excited to announce that Lucky Dog Hot Sauce has won the Startup Nation Top 100 Home-Based Business competition for 2014!
1st place overall and 1st place in the "Yummiest" category!
Woohoo!
Love & hot sauce
The World Hot Sauce Awards results were announced in Louisiana on Friday, 07/18/14 & I'm beyond psyched to announce that Lucky Dog Hot Sauce's new Dia del Perro label won both 1st place in Label Art & also 1st overall in the Marketing Division!
Coming Soon!
1st Place, Label Art Category, Marketing Division - Dia del Perro
1st Place, Overall Marketing Division Winner - Dia del Perro
Woohoo! Congratulations to Robin Case & Erik Bucher who's collaborative efforts made this possible, and thanks to Kara Thauer for the original Lucky Dog label that inspired it all.
Love and hot sauce
Edible East Bay Magazine, May, 2014
It started as a weekend hobby and turned into a hot commodity. So just over a year ago, after seven years of tinkering with recipes at home, former IT and project management man Scott Zalkind ditched the day job in favor of slinging hot sauce at farmers’ markets and festivals. It’s proven to be a critical success: Zalkind’s Lucky Dog hot sauce, a line of six flavors that run from extra mild to extra hot, has taken top honors at hot sauce competitions around the country ever since. We’re talking 22 awards and counting. Not too shabby, given that there’s a lot of competition out there now. Hot sauce production is, well, a red-hot industry these days.....(read more...)
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, so here's the list I had to create for my farmer's markets (don't really want to have to build a shrine for every market I do...heh) - all told, Lucky Dog Hot Sauce won the 1st in Mild, going back to back for that category 2013-2014, 3x second and 2x third place awards.
Very proud and honored considering how stacked this competition is - every product in the hot sauce category is amazing.
Not bad for 13 months?
I highly encourage you to check out every sauce on the winners list - they're all amazing.
http://www.scottrobertsweb.com/zestfest-fiery-food-challengegolden-chiles-2014-winners-list/
Love and hot sauce
<3
Scott
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Not bad considering I entered sauces into 7 categories? I didn't have Purple Label or Pink label out in time, but Black Label got some serious love, and I'm beyond happy to report that the Red Label won the 1st place overall hot sauce award!!! As many of you know, when I was a hobbyist, Red Label was my baby - I worked on that sauce for years to make what I considered a great every day, use on anything sauce. Fresh & roasted garlic with sweetness from carrots and a very even blend of roasted jalapenos, serranos and habanero chiles give the sauce a sriracha-style sweet-heat with some unique flavor profiles.
1st bottle of Red Label off the production line!
Here is the list of Lucky Dog Hot Sauce wins at the 2013 THPAs:
THE HOT PEPPER AWARD (Overall) - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce Red Label
Pepper Blend
2nd - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Orange Label (Jalapeno/Serrano/Habanero)
3rd - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Green Label (Jalapeno/Serrano)
SUPERHOTS w/FRUIT
1st - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Black Label
SUPERHOTS UNIQUE
1st - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Black Label
SWEET
1st - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Red Label
SAVORY
2nd - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Orange Label
3rd - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce - Black Label
In addition to placing or winning every category entered, I also won one of the industry awards:
THE SEEDLING AWARD (Best newcomer) - Lucky Dog Hot Sauce
Here is the full list of the 2014 THPA winners - congratulations to all of the great companies/products that won!
http://thehotpepper.com/topic/44342-the-hot-pepper-awards-2013-winners-announced/#entry929688
