Faversham Food Hero 2017

Renato Cuomo, started Macknade Fine Foods with a barrow and a tent on the Ashford Road in 1979. 

“My father has never really been one for … having the spotlight shone on him, but he was made up this evening and had no idea. I had not anticipated just how much it would mean to him …
It is funny, my parents have just gotten on with doing what they do and have never really fully appreciated what they have and are achieving and it is gestures like this evening that bring it home to them.” says Renato’s son, Stefano.