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Marie Sharp wins "Superior Taste" award in Brussels, Belgium

You know her for her fiery hot habanero pepper sauce, but tonight you'll know her as an international businesswoman who received a prestigious distinction in Brussels, Belgium. Marie Sharp, owner of Marie Sharp Fine Foods, received the Superior Taste Award by the International Taste and Quality Institute in Brussels. She received the award for her Fiery Hot and Exotic Steak. Sharp appeared on Open Your Eyes on June twentieth and spoke of her award winning steak sauce.

Marie Sharp, Owner, Marie Sharp Fine Foods

"The tourist trade has really been like a God sent for me. I think that has really what made my name internationally famous. To be honest with you, right now we have a trophy in Brussels that we are supposed to go to for this month for that steak sauce."

Marleni Cuellar, Host

"Now they are going to fly off the shelves in Belize. Smoke, spicy exotic steak sauce. You say this is based with green mango?"

Marie Sharp

"Green mango and it is ginger and tamarind."

Marleni Cuellar

"And then all your secrets spices."

Marie Sharp

�"Yes. It is very, very nice. I mean once you taste this, you will never touch A1 again."

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Marie Sharp's Promo Video

Fresh from our farm to your table since 1981, Marie Sharp's Pepper Sauces are made with the freshest and finest ingredients like hand chopped carrots, selected white onions, hand harvested Habaneros, Cane Vinegar, Sea Salt, Key Lime Juice and hand picked garlic making it a Pepper Sauce like no other! Exported and enjoyed in more than 30 countries around the world and also on nearly every family and restaurant table in our beautiful Belize. Marie Sharps, Proud Products of Belize!


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Looking for Marie Sharps in the USA? Check out their USA website:
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A chance to win a trip Belize? A bit unorthodox (the set up) but I feel like you have a decent chance to win this! Information on the Marie Sharp homepage. You can just send an email why you "deserve a hot sauce related vacation!"

AY GOODBYE TO CHEAP VINEGAR, DEHYDRATED PEPPERS, POWDERED SEASONINGS AND ARTIFICIAL JUNK!

100% Less Sodium Benzoate, Potassium Sorbate, Sodium bisulfite, and xanthan gum

Treat your family to Marie's 100% plant-based recipes. Hand-harvested, WHOLE FRUIT and VEGETABLES grown from non-gmo seeds in a sustainable, pesticide-free environment.

Off the hummingbird highway in a fertile valley at the base of the Maya Mountain range in Belize, Central America, you will the Melinda Estate. Here, Marie Sharp's crafts the world's finest condiments.

Every INGREDIENT MATTERS

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Guess who the winner is!?!??!?!

We tried 20 popular hot sauces. This is the best

Marie Sharp's, a line of sauces from Belize, is extremely popular among hot sauce enthusiasts - and for good reason. It's chunky with a bright and fresh vegetal flavor from habaneros, carrots, and lime juice. The balance of acidic tang and sweetness from the carrots is just right. If any hot sauce could be called refreshing, it's this one. I had never tried Marie Sharp's before this taste test, and I'm definitely going to keep a bottle around all the time. I can see shaking this one on anything from Jamaican food to fancy cheeses.

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Prepare For The Sting! RED HORNET HAS LANDED!! Get your hands on this brand new Marie Sharp's release! RED HORNET! This is 5x times hotter than Marie's previous hottest sauce. Enjoy!

Shop here: https://mariesharps.info/3sGBllr

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Marie Sharp (born 1940) is a Belizean entrepreneur most recognized for her internationally-known habanero-based pepper sauces. Prior to opening her own firm, she worked as a teacher and as an executive secretary for the Citrus Company of Belize. Since 1981, she has been producing pepper sauce and in 2016 was inducted into the Hot Sauce Hall of Fame. She is the founder and owner of Marie Sharp's Fine Foods Ltd.

Early life

Marie Sharp was born in 1940 in Belize City in British Honduras. Her parents were originally from San Pedro Town on Ambergris Caye, but moved to Belize City shortly before her birth. The couple separated when she was eight years old, and Sharp moved with her father to Dangriga, because of the schooling opportunities. In San Pedro, most schools taught only Spanish, but in Dangriga, she quickly learned the Garifuna language and attended school where English was taught. Graduating from high school in 1958, Sharp passed her Senior Cambridge Exams.

Career

Sharp began her career as a teacher, working in various elementary schools for six years. For the ten years following, she served as an executive secretary of the Citrus Company of Belize. Her second husband was a farmer, and his family owned a 400-acre farm, Melinda Estates Limited. Sharp would spend spare time at the farm and plant various crops that grew well in the country. She originally planted chili peppers for a hot sauce manufacturer who took only a small amount of her habanero peppers. To prevent them from spoiling, Sharp grated the peppers and made barrels of pepper mash.

Working during the day for the Citrus Company, Sharp experimented with various vegetable combinations to make hot sauce and gave them away to friends. At their urging, she began to manufacture the sauce and in 1981, began Marie Sharp's Fine Foods. Her first product was called "Melinda's" after the farm owned by her husband's family. For ten years, she worked to build the brand, expanding into jams, jellies, and marmalades made with tropical fruit. In 1988, with the help of the Belize Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the United States Agency for International Development, she attended Clemson University, studying food packaging. Sharp found a distributor in the United States and began to market the product internationally. It was the first Belizean-made export product to gain wide acceptance and the only habanero-based sauce on the market at that time. In a marketing move, the distributor filed a trademark on the name. When Sharp found out in 1991 that the distributor had trademarked her product, she hired a lawyer. Because of the cost involved, travel constraints and the fact that as her sole distributor she could not work, Sharp eventually gave up the name to her sauce in exchange for a release of her contractual obligations, after a five-year struggle.

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Though the situation required that she start over with new branding, Sharp was determined and re-branded with her own name that same year. In 2000, the Government of Belize facilitated her completing a course on food processing in Honduras at Zamorano Pan-American Agricultural School. Sharp also took a course on business management with the Belize Institute of Management and several courses on marketing and manufacturing practices in Jamaica and Barbados. After years of struggling to get her products on shelves in the United States, Sharp was contacted by a distributor for a major superstore and began exporting her products to U.S. markets in 2003, though she refused to sign an exclusive distributorship arrangement. The arrangement brought her products, which were already available in Central America to all North American markets. Soon after, she was approved to do business in Japan and her Japanese distributor contracted to take the product to other parts of Asia, Europe and Oceania.

Her products known as Marie Sharp's have been widely recognized. She received the Gold prize in the 20th Food and Beverage Competition of D�sseldorf, Germany.In 2013, her entries at the Anuga Food Fair in Cologne made the prestigious "Taste13 Showcase" round and Sharp's sauce placed in the top three. In 2014, she was honored by Belize's Special Envoy for Women and Children as a woman trailblazer. Sharp was inducted into the Hot Sauce Hall of Fame in 2016. In June 2017 Mrs. Sharp´s Products won twice golden awards in 2 out of 3 categories at the German Chili Award in Hanover/Germany.

Personal life

Sharp has been married twice. Her first husband, with whom she had three sons, died of cancer. She remarried, and her second husband brought his seven children, two girls and five boys, into the family. Three sons work in various aspects of Marie Sharp's Fine Foods.

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Marie Sharp's Exporting Pepper Sauces To Israel

A huge milestone, Marie Sharp's Fine Foods, a Belizean- owned and operated company focused on the development of Belize's finest hot sauces, announced today that their first ever shipment of Marie Sharp's Mango Pepper Sauce, Marie Sharp's Hot Nopal Green Habanero Pepper Sauce and Marie Sharp's Original Hot Sauce has been exported to Israel. This first shipment of "hot" cargo will arrive in Israel around the third week in August for distribution.

"This first export to Israel is not only a great milestone for Marie Sharp's Fine Foods, but it is also breakthrough for Belize, as we will be bringing a taste of Belize to Israel", said Joy W. Marketing & Sales Director. Marie Sharp fine pepper sauces are now enjoyed in over 37 countries, among them Lebanon, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, India, the U.S.A., and other Central American countries to name a few.

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Marie Sharp's has ireleased a new hot sauce that has 'lava heat,' called Red Hornet Sauce.

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Marie Sharp talks about how it all started.


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Marie Sharp's Fine Foods Limited celebrates its 40 Anniversary
Marie Sharp - Owner, Marie Sharp's Fine Foods Ltd.
Jody Williams - Marketing Manager

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