Shortly after founders Robert Ganz and Sidney J. Marx launched The National Provisioner in April 1891, they wrote that trade journals should strive to be “something more than mere records of trade news.” Little did they know, the NP archives would someday become one of the most complete collections of history chronicling the American meat and poultry industry during the past 125 years.
Since serving as editorial director of The National Provisioner and Meat & Deli Retailer, plus editor of the latter publication, in the early to mid-2000s, I, too, became a tiny thread in this massive, ever-growing NP editorial quilt.