My father Settimo grew up in a small town called Bolognetta, Sicily where his family owned the largest olive orchard. He learned the family craft, making olive oil using a traditional method of pressing olives through a cement wheel. Several years later he came to America with his wife Antonina and started his own Italian import distribution company.
Antonina Extra Virgin Olive Oil exhibits superior taste with notes of intensely fruity flavors and fresh aromatic herbs using only native Sicilian Bincolilla, Nocellara and Mount Iblei olives. It has a rich golden-green color and aroma of unfiltered oil. This unfiltered oil has no added chemicals and is not altered by temperature. The premium quality pressing process allows the oil to retain a true olive taste, a smooth finish and has the lowest level of oleic acid than other blends.
E&S Food, Inc., was started in 1980 by Settimo Guttilla in his car garage in Garfield NJ.
Delivering products throughout the New York metro market with his car. Within a year he was able to move out of the garage and into his 1 st warehouse located in Lodi NJ. After six years Settimo’s entire family wife Antonina and sons Joe, Jerry, and Sandro all joined in becoming part of the company. From that turning point Settimo created a
house brand of Antonina named after his loving wife and with the help of great vendors such as Grande Cheese, Stanislaus Tomatoes, Barilla pasta and of course the original vendor Orlando foods E&S began to flourish. After lifelong dedication of work along side his family, the dream has become a reality
building a state-of-the-art food distribution center in Whippany NJ. The Facility is 72,000 sq feet,
with over 3,000 products for sale. E&S Food Inc. currently supplies 1,000 customers with the
help of our amazing staff of over 50 employees.
