Episode 13 is now LIVE! Zachary’s Chicago Pizza, the employee-owned pizzeria known for its thick, signature stuffed pies, is a local institution in the Bay Area. With over 225 Best Pizza awards to its name, locals know it as the ONLY place to get deep dish in the Bay.

We hope you enjoy!

We are SO excited for this episode, with Theo Chocolate, an incredible bean-to-bar chocolate maker founded in Seattle, WA in 2005. Our guest, Aaron has been with Theo for 7 years now, and is the lead chocolate educator. He hosts chocolate tastings, factory tours, and SO MUCH more exciting stuff (seriously a dream job?)

We talk to Aaron in this episode about:

- His personal passion for chocolate and how it drove him to innovate and help develop virtual chocolate tastings in the pandemic

- How Theo Chocolate was founded and how it has evolved over time

- His background in theatre and how it taught him to lead and engage audiences in amazing virtual events

...and there's so much more!

Zach Martinucci grew up in the Bay Area and went to high school with Madeleine before going on to study at UCLA and setting off on his entrepreneurial adventure as the founder of Rebel Bread, a bakery in Denver, CO! Rebel Bread is a Community Bakery and Bread School that offers wholesale bread and pastries to local coffee shops, bakes for farmers markets and a membership Bread Club, and offers classes for every kind of home baker.

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Our guest for Episode 9 is Amelie Kang from @malaproject!

Amelie grew up in Beijing, watching her grandmother cook, and her early exposure to food had her pursue Culinary Arts at the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) and then an externship at Chef Daniel Boulud's Bar Boulud & China Blue. Amelie has been honored by Forbes 30 Under 30 for Food & Drink & Eater Young Gun for introducing Sichuan dry pot to the NYC food ecosystem.

Amelie’s work ethic, creativity, and care for people are what have made her first restaurant @malaproject such an incredible success, and we're so excited to share it with you!

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4:40 Warm up questions

9:37 How Amelie's interest in cooking began

16:02 Menu development

23:24 How Amelie approaches branding

31:27 Approach to scaling across multiple restaurant locations

38:36 Mentorship & favorite foods!

Noah Fleishman is the VP of Bethesda Bagels, a beloved Washington DC bagel eatery! Family owned and run, Bethesda Bagels has a close-knit family dynamic and close ties to the community, and is a go-to for Catherine & other east coast residents for a great bagel! 

Steve and Fran Fleishman started Betheda Bagels in 1982 after adopting styles & techniques learned from the classic New York bagel. After the initial success of their first Bethesda location, the company began expanding, and now has 5 popular locations in the DC area. Noah and his three brothers grew up in the bagel business and now play prominent roles in running the stores- Noah, who is 24, graduated from the University of Maryland three years ago as a business management major and is the general manager of each location, with a focus on community building (like running recent bagel-making classes for the DC community!) Noah was truly a pleasure to speak with, and his candor & curiosity about us as hosts made us all feel like close friends! We hope you all enjoy this conversation as much as we did!  

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6:26 How to make bagels the Fleishman Family way  

12:48 The origin story: How Noah’s parents got the idea to learn from NYC bagels and start their own in Maryland 

9:14 How Noah got started in the business  25:30 What he’s like as a manager and what he brings to the business now  

27:20 Tough feedback Noah has gotten 

33:35 How their customers helped Bethesda Bagels in the pandemic, and how they gave back to their employees  

35:05 How we all dealt with the pandemic personally 

In the last third of the conversation, Noah start to ask the questions... 

45:23 Noah asks Catherine why she runs a cooking instagram  

51:38 Best Bagel orders  

53:49 Why Madeleine is Vegan

Noah Fleishman is the VP of Bethesda Bagels, a beloved Washington DC bagel eatery! Family owned and run, Bethesda Bagels has a close-knit family dynamic and close ties to the community, and is a go-to for Catherine & other east coast residents for a great bagel!

Steve and Fran Fleishman started Betheda Bagels in 1982 after adopting styles & techniques learned from the classic New York bagel. After the initial success of their first Bethesda location, the company began expanding, and now has 5 popular locations in the DC area. Noah and his three brothers grew up in the bagel business and now play prominent roles in running the stores- Noah, who is 24, graduated from the University of Maryland three years ago as a business management major and is the general manager of each location, with a focus on community building (like running recent bagel-making classes for the DC community!) Noah was truly a pleasure to speak with, and his candor & curiosity about us as hosts made us all feel like close friends! We hope you all enjoy this conversation as much as we did! 

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6:26 How to make bagels the Fleishman Family way 

12:48 The origin story: How Noah’s parents got the idea to learn from NYC bagels and start their own in Maryland 1

9:14 How Noah got started in the business 

25:30 What he’s like as a manager and what he brings to the business now 

27:20 Tough feedback Noah has gotten 33:35 How their customers helped Bethesda Bagels in the pandemic, and how they gave back to their employees 

35:05 How we all dealt with the pandemic personally 

In the last third of the conversation, Noah start to ask the questions... 

45:23 Noah asks Catherine why she runs a cooking instagram 

51:38 Best Bagel orders 

53:49 Why Madeleine is Vegan

Bringing you a very special episode with Catherine & Madeleine!

The most common feedback we’ve gotten on our episodes so far is that y’all wanna know more about US! In the next episode, we’re taking a quick pause for us (your co-hosts Madeleine & Catherine) to reflect on our friendship, first impressions of each other, and fave memories along the way. We always have fun chatting with each other and are excited to open up our conversations to you all!

Kim Rizk & Kathy Klockinbrink are the power duo behind Jammin’ Crepes, a local crepe restaurant in Princeton, New Jersey!

Kim & Kathy started Jammin’ Crepes in 2011 as a stand at the @wwfarmersmarket, and it’s since evolved to be a @princeton favorite! They focus their ever-evolving menu on highlighting farm-fresh produce, and their prioritization of seasonable, local foods has led them to be honored as a New Jersey sustainable business! Their award-winning 20 layer crepe cake has also been honored by @newjerseyfamily and even featured on the Food Network with Guy Fieri!

In this episode, Kim & Kathy share:

As students, we LOVED going to Jammin Crepes, and we CAN’T WAIT to share this episode with you all!