Puck Gets Gourmet Food Deal

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) â€” ConAgra Inc. is adding the name of celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck to its lengthy menu of brand-name foods. <br><br>Puck and ConAgra have agreed to develop a line of gourmet food products

Friday, January 19th 2001, 12:00 am

By: News On 6

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) â€” ConAgra Inc. is adding the name of celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck to its lengthy menu of brand-name foods.

Puck and ConAgra have agreed to develop a line of gourmet food products under Puck's name. The line will include frozen entrees, pizzas and side dishes.

``We're going to raise the culinary awareness and enrich the food experience at the supermarket,'' Puck said Thursday when the agreement was announced. The terms were not disclosed.

Puck, who has a new show on Food Network TV, operates the original Spago in Hollywood, Calif., and has written cookbooks.

ConAgra is the nation's largest manufacturer of food products for restaurants and is the second largest retail food supplier. The company's consumer brand names include Hunt's tomato products, Healthy Choice frozen entrees, Slim Jim meat snacks and Orville Redenbacher popcorn.