PeasOnMoss Podcast

Chef Robert Saia is a self-trained chef, food science expert, and nutritionist, and he has been working on solving problems in the kitchen ever since he began working in food service. He and Mrs. Chef joined me on the podcast to share details about the book and provide a great giveaway for our PeasOnMoss podcast listeners just in time for the holidays! Sign up for the POM newsletter and be entered for a copy of the e-book!

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Jeff is a nationally acclaimed marketing leader, specializing in reigniting and revitalizing brands and categories. He is best known for GOT MILK?, transforming the now famous phrase from a local tag line into one of the best known, most influential campaigns in advertising history. A campaign licensed nationally by companies including Nabisco, Nestle, General Mills and Kellogg.

This podcast is sponsored by Icon Foods. Get information about sugar free formulations and find out what they've developed lately to help you solve your sugar reduction requirements.

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Want to meet in person? Come to the American Food Innovate Summit - take advantage of the PeasOnMoss media partnership special - click the link on the home page.

Jeff Manning is not your typical mad man advertising man, but he does have a pretty nifty history. He worked on the California milk processor board side of the advertising slogan "got milk." He is one of the speakers for the upcoming American Food Innovate Summit in Chicago Feb 4-5, and he came to the show to give us a preview of what he plans to share at the innovation summit.

This podcast is sponsored by Icon Foods. Get information about sugar free formulations and find out what they've developed lately to help you solve your sugar reduction requirements.

Become a sponsor and help grow the podcast and the value-add we can offer you.

Want to meet in person? Come to the American Food Innovate Summit - take advantage of the PeasOnMoss media partnership special - click the link on the home page.

Joshua Smith has enjoyed a wonderful career at So Delicious, and has a godfather-like affection for several of the products that have made So Delicious a staple in the non-dairy products category. From the younger days as an independent brand through partnerships and acquisitions, Joshua has grown in his career as the company has. He shares that that experience was like and his optimism for the future. We also talk about Expo West and the changes that the Natural Products show - and the category - have undergone over the past decade.

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Food product developer Joshua Smith is a connection through Katie Jones, the founder of the Food Heroes Podcast, a former colleague at So Delicious. In this preview, Joshua talks about why he has stayed for several years in the same business while many middle managers and developers (myself included) have moved to different companies for promotions and opportunities.

This show is sponsored by Icon Foods. Find out from them how they could help you reduce sugar without losing your sweet identity. www.iconfoods.com

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Andrew Garrett laughs easily, but don't think that this doesn't mean he doesn't take his work seriously. The founder of NW Elixers, a chef-created cooking sauce brand in Portland, OR, Chef Andrew has also worked with Icon Foods commercializing sugar free sauces for the ketogenic community. He shares some of the challenges of what it is like to force himself to relinquish the ownership of every single step in a product manufacturing process in order to focus on the most important elements of business and co-packing. You can find NW Elixers in the Pacific Northwest and buy his product online at http://nwelixirs.com/

This podcast is sponsored by Icon Foods. Get information about sugar free formulations and find out what they've developed lately to help you solve your sugar reduction requirements.

Become a sponsor and help grow the podcast and the value-add we can offer you.

Want to meet in person? Come to the American Food Innovate Summit and take advantage of the Thanksgiving special 2-4-1 deal!

Next week's podcast guest is R&D Chef Andrew Garrett. After acknowledging his obsession with condiments and sauces, Chef Andrew shared how he came to found NW Elixirs and why co-packing was the biggest challenge he faced as a food business entrepreneur. In this preview he shares what the biggest two lessons were for his work as a research chef.

This podcast is sponsored by Icon Foods, the source for high intensity, natural sweeteners. Get details at www.iconfoods.com. Join them and sponsor PeasOnMoss. Contact us at www.peasonmoss.com. Find Chef Andrew's products at http://nwelixirs.com

Food product developer and writer Katie Jones didn't start out with the plan to be the next big podcast host, but after years of writing about food and experience as a food product developer, she was looking for another way to contribute to the industry. Since she already interviewed experts in the field for articles in various food publications, she thought podcasting would be a breeze. It's not. But she discovered something else: a platform to tell the stories about food businesses with unique, community-focused and industry-changing missions. She joins us on the podcast to talk shop and about some of the lessons she learned in her first 20 episodes.

This show is sponsored by Icon Foods. Find out from them how they could help you reduce sugar without losing your sweet identity. www.iconfoods.com

Join them in supporting the show - find out how you can help us grow. www.peasonmoss.com

One thing that is great about podcasting is the relationship we build with our guests and our audience. Some of my good friends in the industry started as guests on the show. In this clip, I chat with Katie about imposter syndrome - whether I feel it, and how I deal with it. You'll hear Katie's perspective in next week's full interview, but here's my most recent approach to how I landed a senior scientist role without a master's in food science. (Hint: it takes a lot of late night reading to make sure I'm still filling the gaps, and it takes humility to ask others to help educate you)

This show is sponsored by Icon Foods. Find out from them how they could help you reduce sugar without losing your sweet identity. www.iconfoods.com

Join them in supporting the show - find out how you can help us grow. www.peasonmoss.com

Chef Dan Follese is your modern-day traveling fixer, but not in the Mob sort of way. He's a consulting R&D Chef who has a knack for speaking to the marketing and brand managers as well as the operators, developers, and chefs in a team. Instead of introducing line extensions, he helps brands refresh their offerings and expand their customer base by showing them how to repurpose and showcase their existing ingredients in the food trends of today. Chef Dan is a member of the Research Chefs Association, but we're connected through the interesting articles that he posts on LinkedIn.

See how Chef Follese can help you repurpose current products into new opportunities without doing NPD. Follese Culinary Consulting

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