Lettuce Wrap

Why does Guilianna of Alma Superfoods say “my kitchen is my lab”? And how did a dislike of peanut butter turn into a nut butter business? Guilianna grew up in the Peruvian Andes where she helped her mom run a popular catering business. From her mom, she learned how to mix the flavors and aromas of ancient ingredients and was inspired to created her food business. She leads us through the genesis of Alma Superfoods before taking us on a culinary adventure through Peruvian flavors and ingredients.

Our thanks to Guilianna for joining us. You can find her at almasuperfoods.com and on Instagram @almasuperfoods.

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Special Guest: Guilianna Glassman, Alma Superfoods.

The Good Food Awards Mercantile is the place to taste the future of food, from small, sustainable producers. We discuss the Good Food Foundation that puts it on, and chat with two Good Food Guild members, direct from the show floor.

Our thanks to Anne Smith of Oregon Bark and Elizabeth Feinberg of Vermont Amber for joining us. You can follow them on Twitter:

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Special Guests: Anne Smith, Oregon Bark and Elizabeth Feinberg, Vermont Amber .

Lulu runs a cake business, but is her ultimate goal to build a lifestyle brand? A self-taught baker and accidental entrepreneur, Lulu got her start making cakes for friends, who convinced her they were good enough to sell. We learn the value of persistence, the power of social media, and how a beautiful, delicious cake is like an attractive woman with a computer science degree.

Our thanks to Lulu for joining us. You can find her online at luluyum.com, @luluyumllc on Instagram, and lulu_yum on WeChat.

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Special Guest: Lu Den, Lulu Yum.

Mark has the best job: he tastes award-winning, artisan-crafted olive oils, chocolates and honey, and shares his finds with the world. He leads us through a chocolate tasting, and chats about why he started his business.

Our thanks to Mark for joining us. You can find him online at Yummy Artisan Foods.

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Special Guest: Mark Priestley, Yummy Artisan Foods.

We pick our favorite shows, movies and documentaries about food and cooking, from old school classics to new school faves. And a few things we definitely do not like.…

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Melanie has a pickle problem, and there’s only one way to solve it: More pickles! Can she pickle anything? We explore the difficulty of starting a food business when you have no experience, and getting hung up on the details that don’t matter (or do they?). There’s value in an enthusiastic partner when starting a business who helps with the heavy lifting (literally and figuratively). In our Wrap-id Fire round, we explore ‘kraut and pickle pairings, some good, some... less good.

Our thanks to Melanie for joining us. You can find her online at slowbrine.com and @slowbrine on Instagram.

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Special Guest: Melanie Rogers, Slow Brine.

Amanda Garcia joins us to explore the value of attending school to get experience—and confidence—vs. getting into the industry early. Amanda—who fell in love with chocolate while attending pastry school—shares her thoughts on learning the fundamentals, and the difficulty of getting into a kitchen without kitchen experience, then reflects on missing out on "home economics" class as an "older" millennial. She looks forward five years and the impact of living in the Bay Area on her plans. We explore food and flavor pairings, where Amanda opines on about pumpkin spice and other "trends". In the quick fire round, we force impossible choices, and end the episode recapping what we learned.

Our thanks to Amanda for joining us. You can find her on Twitter (@cocoalibris) and Instagram (@chocamanda).

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Special Guest: Amanda Garcia, NeoCocoa.

We're Christine and Tammy: friends, food enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Between us, we own three food businesses, and have lots to say about food, the food business, and the people who work in our industry.

In this pilot episode, we share our backstory and the reasons we started Lettuce Wrap.

Learn how Christine’s candy selling leads to deboning a duck which leads to an epiphany. A multitude of kitchen jobs leads to a career in graphic design, and it all ends in a sandwich of chef-ery.

Meanwhile, Tammy turns up her nose at high tech to sniff out spices for a living, converts chicken into cuisine, and farmers markets become retail stores become online stores.

Our inaugural "quick fire round" puts Tammy into a spice quandary, and Christine picks a favorite truffle and meal. And we learn which of us is the true food adventurer.

Thank you for listening. You can follow us on Twitter:

or email us at [email protected].

That’s a wrap!

Amanda Garcia joins us to explore the value of attending school to get experience—and confidence—vs. getting into the industry early. Amanda—who fell in love with chocolate while attending pastry school—shares her thoughts on learning the fundamentals, and the difficulty of getting into a kitchen without kitchen experience, then reflects on missing out on "home economics" class as an "older" millennial. She looks forward five years and the impact of living in the Bay Area on her plans. We explore food and flavor pairings, where Amanda opines on about pumpkin spice and other "trends". In the quick fire round, Christine and Tammy force impossible choices, and we end the episode recapping what we learned.

Our thanks to Amanda for joining us. You can find her on Twitter (@cocoalibris) and Instagram (@chocamanda).

Thank you for listening. You can follow us on Twitter:

or email us at [email protected].

That’s a wrap!

Amazon and other links may be affiliates. Purchases help support the show.

Special Guest: Amanda Garcia.

We're Christine and Tammy: friends, food enthusiasts and entrepreneurs. Between us, we own three food businesses, and have lots to say about food, the food business, and the people who work in our industry.

In this pilot episode, we share our backstory and the reasons we started Lettuce Wrap.

Learn how Christine’s candy selling leads to deboning a duck which leads to an epiphany. A multitude of kitchen jobs leads to a career in graphic design, and it all ends in a sandwich of chef-ery.

Meanwhile, Tammy turns up her nose at high tech to sniff out spices for a living, converts chicken into cuisine, and farmers markets become retail stores become online stores.

Our inaugural "quick fire round" puts Tammy into a spice quandary, and Christine picks a favorite truffle and meal. And we learn which of us is the true food adventurer.

Thank you for listening. You can follow us on Twitter:

or email us at [email protected].

That’s a wrap!