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Main content starts here, tab to start navigating In 2015, while in culinary school, Lesa Walker developed crunchy, gooey, sweet, crispy chips covered in caramel and dark chocolate. Though delicious, she shelved them. Three years and one health scare later, Lesa took some time off and turned naughty into nutritious with a mostly roasted flaxseed […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Emily Elyse Miller’s cereals are inspired by the extreme emotional cycles of creative people—Dash’s coffee and cocoa for revving up and Zombie’s vanilla and pandan for slowing down. Yes, it’s cereal, but it’s also a reminder to feed our moods. Favorite fact: Emily created the first female […]

Shop In 2014, I traveled to Brazil for three weeks on a family trip. Each morning at breakfast I was blown away by the most intensely ripe and delicious mangoes and papayas from small local farms. I have quite a sweet tooth and thought to myself, “If I could keep eating fruit like this, I’d […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Chai cravings spiked at 10am and 3pm every day not just for Madura Chaudhari, but also her Indian co-workers at Comcast in Philadelphia. After deeming chai at nearby coffee shops and restaurants to be soulless, Chaudhari began making her own Classic Masala and selling it at farmers […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating For artist Andre Springer, hot sauce is the medium to tell stories of Barbadian heritage, childhood in Brooklyn, community, gender identity and more. Born out of a drag performance at Bushwig, no surprise this hot pepper sauce is sassy! Shop Shaquanda’s pepper sauces are like portraits that […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating It makes sense that this hot sauce isn’t the blow-the-roof-off-your-mouth type, but instead, more like fresh greens with heat because it was created by a Charleston chef to go on delicate foods like oysters. I think that’s probably why Molly Fienning first fell for it, then invested, […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Competitive fencer-turned-meal-kit-entrepreneur, Nona Lim had developed some 300 recipes by the time she closed the business, and then made an impressively smooth pivot to packaged goods in 2020.  Her new products like Laksa Noodles and Shiitake Beef Bone Broth are influenced by her Chinese heritage and growing […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating It’s NOle is founded by a professor who, at first, was a somewhat reluctant granola ball entrepreneur. Students who loved the cranberry-coconut treats that Margaret Barrow brought to class conducted hundreds of surveys, without her knowing, to prove there was enough demand to launch a business. Margaret […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Lying on the living room floor, ordering groceries online, Rhandi Altidor missed being able to support Black-owned farms during the pandemic and figured others must feel the same. After testing with pick-up in Atlanta, she and her husband Jonathan launched shipping produce nationwide. Shop The Better Buggy […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Grown in California, with deep roots in Japan, Ayako Iino’s Yumé Boshi offers sweet and savory examples of traditional preserved plums—vinegar, syrup, jam. Shop Tinted by red shiso leaves, the syrup and vinegar are fruity-salty secrets to a salad dressings and drinks that raises eyebrows of awe. […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating I’m so happy to see you here! I hope you’re hungry! I’m Dana Cowin, evangelist for good food and good people, coach for creatives, former longtime Editor-in-Chief of Food & Wine, host of podcast Speaking Broadly and now creator of Giving Broadly, a website to highlight products […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Don’t ask me how Fly by Jing Sichuan Chili Crisp that is oily, and hot and crunchy tastes as good on poached chicken as it does on vanilla ice cream or avocado. I have no idea. I do know that Jing Gao makes magnificent condiments with tremendous […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Inspired by the soft and tender—almost juicy—Medjool dates from mature trees on her family’s southern California ranch, CPA-turned-CEO Joan Smith now works with local growers to source exceptional fruit and sell online (Joan has planted her own trees, too; her first crop was eaten by critters!) Shop […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating I found Fauzia’s Jerk Seasoning through Hot Bread Kitchen, an organization that (among many things) helps immigrant women incubate businesses. After 25 years as a beloved NYC street vendor, HBK helped Fauzia Abdur-Rahman develop a plan for her secret sauce, Fauzia’s Jerk Seasoning. Just like back home […]