Creative food event planner and award-winning writer and multimedia producer, Lola Milholland, talks about starting her Portland-based organic ramen noodle company Umi Organic and the importance of being playful with food. From ‘experimental ice cream socials’ to ‘noodle luges’ Lola is turning the American bad habit of rushing through meals on its head with creativity, ingenuity and—of course—the spoils from her CSA box.

Tune in to hear about…

• Exactly how Lola and Rootstock Radio host Theresa Marquez know each other. Let’s just say they go waaaaaaay back…
• Food adventures like ‘melon milk ice cream’ and ‘blind tasting bingo’
• How to get millennials to cook!
• What the heck a ‘noodle luge’ is and what inspired this crazy-awesome idea
• Deepening local cuisine even as more extraordinary ingredients show up on grocery store shelves