Main content starts here, tab to start navigating As a chef at The Boonville Hotel in California, Krissy Scommegna put the classic Basque Piment d’Espelette on everything. The problem? It wasn’t local and it was expensive. As a solution, she  figured out how to grow, dry and grind peppers. She and her husband Gideon Burdick […]

Skip to main content Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Three women, introduced through their kids and bonded by a love of food, launched a tahini brand Seed + Mill in Manhattan’s Chelsea Market hoping foodies would flock to try tahini soft serve and cardamom halva. And flock they did. With CEO Rachel […]

Andre Springer is a drag artist whose performance has centered around their homemade hot sauce. Fauzia Abdur-Rahman is a street cart vendor with a twenty-five year following for her Jamaican-Fusion food and jerk seasoning. They have one important thing in common. They are part of Hot Bread Kitchen’s small business community, which helped them scale […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating Pastry chef Auzerais Bellamy set up a website four years ago to test an idea: itty bitty Blondies. She had 500 orders in two weeks and Blondery was born. Her brilliance is in applying the scale and elegance of a French petit four to a classic American […]

Main content starts here, tab to start navigating In Ethiopia’s Gera Forest, NGO consultant Ariana Day Yuen tasted raw honey recently harvested from local Geteme trees. It was thick and chewy with hints of citrus and fresh flowers. Yuen now works with smallhold forest farmers to produce four single-tree honeys under her Forested Foods’ Maryiza […]

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 […]