Doug aka “Papa Mangia” created his first cutting board at the age of 17 for his mother in shop class at school. 50 years later we asked him to make a long skinny cutting board to cut our Italian loaves of bread on. When he asked how we wanted it finished we decided to create our own natural and non-toxic blend to finish and protect the boards.
Having retired, Doug agreed to sell a small number of cutting boards to our audience on social media who also value beautiful handmade, non-toxic cutting boards. Doug designed the cutting board handles to look like the original board he created for his mom so many years ago. He handmade our cutting boards in a small basement shop working for hours shaping and sanding. It started small and slowly our “fleet” of cutting board shapes and sizes grew as did the demand. This little side hobby quickly became a rigorous job.
In order to fill the demand for our cutting boards we decided to outsource the majority of our cutting boards to a local manufacturing company owned by a relative of our Mamma Mangia family. Doug and our team worked closely with the new manufacturer to ensure the cutting boards met our exacting standards. We are humbled and grateful to provide the highest quality, non-toxic cutting boards available and are excited to continue to serve you, our friends and supporters.