Epicurean
Wood-fibre cutting boards and utensils made in the United States, carrying the company’s own qualifier: of U.S. and imported parts.
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Where Epicurean products are made
“Made in the USA of U.S. and Imported Parts” is not a phrase a marketing department reaches for by accident — the shorter, stronger version was available and Epicurean did not use it. This page quotes the sentence in full wherever the claim appears, because the qualifier is the honest half.
Twenty-seven of fifty-two products carry Epicurean’s Made in USA designation, and they are spread across eight categories rather than concentrated in one flagship line: cutting boards, utensils, pizza peels, pizza cutters, spreaders, pan scrapers, board butter and multi-piece sets.
Epicurean publishes a Superior, Wisconsin address in its own structured data, but it does not say where the boards are pressed and cut. Origin at country level is first-party and checkable; the specific facility is not published, and this profile does not fill the gap with a guess.
The Federal Trade Commission reserves an unqualified Made in USA claim for goods that are all or virtually all of domestic origin, and permits a qualified claim where some inputs are imported. Epicurean has written exactly such a qualified claim — “of U.S. and Imported Parts” — and roughly half of its catalogue carries no origin designation at all. This page therefore carries the American Manufacturing label and reproduces the company’s qualifier in full.
The story
Epicurean has made the same argument since 2003: that a cutting board does not have to be a slab of hardwood or a sheet of plastic. Its boards are a dense wood-fibre composite — knife-friendly, dishwasher-safe, thin, and hard enough to take a chef’s abuse without warping.
The range grew outward from the boards into the tools that sit beside them: turners and spoons, pizza peels and cutters, spreaders, pan scrapers and the board butter that keeps the surfaces conditioned.
Epicurean operates from Superior, Wisconsin, on the Wisconsin side of the Twin Ports at the western end of Lake Superior — an address the company publishes in its own site data.
Why they matter
Kitchen tools are a near-total import category. Utensils in particular are the definition of a commodity product, and a domestic maker of spoons and turners is genuinely unusual.
The qualifier is the reason Epicurean is worth reading closely rather than dismissing. “Of U.S. and imported parts” tells a buyer that some inputs come from abroad before that buyer has to ask, and a company that volunteers the awkward half of a sentence is easier to believe about the rest of it.
The improvement available to Epicurean is small and would matter: name the plant. A company already willing to publish a nuanced origin qualifier loses nothing by saying which building the boards come out of, and buyers who care about the qualifier are exactly the buyers who will ask.
Shop Epicurean products
Kitchen Series and Gourmet Series cutting boards, All-in-One boards with integrated handles, wood-fibre turners and spoons, pizza peels and rocker cutters, spreaders, pan scrapers and board butter.
Epicurean questions
Are Epicurean cutting boards made in the USA?
Epicurean’s own wording is “Made in the USA of U.S. and Imported Parts.” The boards are made in the United States and some of the inputs are imported — the company states both halves itself, and this profile quotes the sentence rather than shortening it.
What are Epicurean boards made of?
A dense wood-fibre composite rather than solid hardwood or plastic. It is knife-friendly, dishwasher-safe and thin, which is the whole design argument behind the product.
Where is Epicurean based?
257 B Main Street, Superior, Wisconsin 54880, published in the company’s own site data. Epicurean does not publish the location of its manufacturing plant.
Do all Epicurean products carry the USA designation?
No. Twenty-seven of fifty-two products carry it, across eight categories including boards, utensils, pizza tools, spreaders, pan scrapers and board butter. The silicone utensils and several bundle listings do not, and this page does not claim them.