Chef Boyardee is famous for producing canned Italian food, commonly found populating grocery store shelves. However, before Chef Boyardee graced grocery store shelves with things like Beefaroni and ...

The character is inspired by the real chef, Ettore "Hector" Boiardi, who changed the conversation around spaghetti dinners across the U.S. less than a decade after immigrating here PEOPLE spoke with ...

Unlike the friendly but fictional food faces of Betty Crocker, Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben, Chef Boyardee — that jovial, mustachioed Italian chef — is real. Ettore "Hector" Boiardi (that's how the ...

Weird History Food is getting nostalgic with every kid's favorite chef - Chef Boyardee. Chef Hector Boyardee was born in 1897 in Piacenza, Italy, not surprisingly with a very Italian name: Ettore ...

Let’s avoid the usual harsh commentary regarding canned meals and substitute, say, “moist” for “barely recognizable as a foodstuff, much less as pasta.” And how about “seasoning” in place of “past-its ...

I am the son of a home economics teacher and the brother-in-law of another. In the 1930s, my father was working for the Vincennes Packing (canning) Co. in Indiana when a man came in and said, "I run a ...