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Washougal food business “has mushroomed”

Foods In Season grows into one of nation's most prominent wholesale distributors

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Foods in Season founder John Anderson holds a dried mushroom at one of his warehouses in Washougal in June.

John Anderson didn’t set out to create one of the United States’ most prominent wholesale food distributors. He simply wanted to leave his job as a millworker in Bingen, Washington, just outside of White Salmon.

“It was a dead-end job, going nowhere,” Anderson said. “I dreaded it. I looked forward to Friday nights and hated Monday mornings.”

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