Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. shelf of Chef Boyardee cans - rblfmr/Shutterstock Chef Boyardee is famous for producing canned Italian food, commonly found ...

Millions of Americans, young and old, recognize the smiling visage displayed on his canned Italian dishes, but Ettore Boiardi, aka Hector Boyardee, was more than a commercial food entrepreneur. He was ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You've seen his face in commercials and the grocery store aisle — but just who was Chef Boyardee? This is the story of how an ...

Ol' Chef Boyardee. He seems like a jolly old chap. You see him on his branded cans, a sly smile below a hearty mustache, all adorned in his chef whites and hat. He's not just a cartoonish mascot ...

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 ...

Chef Boyardee: the famous red and yellow cans that contain the convenient and nostalgic beef ravioli, spaghetti and meatballs, beefaroni, and more. Unbeknownst to many, the company's founder was, in ...

Ettore 'Hector' Boiardi's legacy is an everyday brand that elicits the warmest feelings in generations of American families Chef Boyardee; Courtesy of Courtney Eastman Chef Boyardee is a household ...

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 ...

If you've ever taken a stroll down the pasta and canned goods aisles at your local grocery store, chances are you're familiar with Chef Boyardee. What you may not know, however, is that Chef Boyardee ...

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 ...