Our Story
Founder
Paul Bertolli, renowned chef, launched Fra’ Mani Handcrafted Foods in March 2006.
Philosophy
Our mission is crafting salumi in the finest Italian pastoral traditions, using the highest-quality pork.
Our pork comes from family farmers committed to the well-being of their animals and their land. The hogs are never given antibiotics, artificial growth hormones, growth-promoting agents or meat by-products. They eat only the finest grains and natural feed. This old-fashioned way to raise hogs produces pork of outstanding quality, which is the essential ingredient in all Fra’ Mani salumi.
Distribution & Availability
Wholesale
Wholesale information can be obtained by writing to us or by calling the Fra’ Mani office at (510) 526-7000.
Retail
Fra’ Mani products are available at selected markets.
Team
Founder Paul Bertolli is the Curemaster of Fra’ Mani and is responsible for all product development and creation, plant operations, and quality assurance. Paul’s maternal grandfather was a salumiere and his love of salumi was ignited at a young age while savoring prosciutto and soppressata vicentina from his grandfather’s cellars.
Jasmine Smith, Responsabile Produzione, supervises production and is a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America (Hyde Park).
Tom Garrity, Administrator and Consigliere, is a recovering corporate finance lawyer who has found refuge in salumi. Tom was first introduced to authentic salumi in Italy and Greece, where he has traveled extensively as a student of Thucydides and classical antiquity.
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