Who Is Eat Chic? Reese’s peanut butter cups (especially the holiday eggs and the trees, holler!) are my favorite candies of all time. That is, until I tried one of Lotta Andonian’s Eat Chic chocolates. OMG, you guys. They are so good. Like Reese’s on steroids, or rather, Ritalin. More refined with grown-up touches like Maldon sea salt and fresh ground nut butters that go beyond peanut: almond, hazelnut, cashew. Lotta says she’s got 30 flavors on rotation at any…
Who Is Fawen? Amanda Bowen and Fabio Fossati are a couple. They do normal coupley things like work out and go on walks together. But a few years back, they took their relationship to…
Who Is Bread SRSLY? The tale of Bread Srsly is ultimately a love story. Sadie Scheffer dropped out of college and moved across the country to follow her crush, a bold move more reminiscent…
Who Is Mouton Noir? In 2003, at the age of 30, Andre Hueston Mack was the first African American to be named Best Young Sommelier in America. Soon after, he accepted a somm job at…
Who Is Jalapa Jar? Tommy Byrnes (a Texan), Joel Nearing (a Texan) and Steve Smith (a Yank) are the founders behind Jalapa Jar, a fresh salsa developed by Joel and put onto NYC breakfast tacos by…
Who Is Dave’s Gourmet? Dave Hirschkop wasn’t trying to start a hot sauce company. He was simply on a mission to create the hottest hot sauce on earth because the drunk kids who kept…
Who Is DANK Banana Bread? Caitlin Makary is a badass. She rides a motorcycle. She rock climbs. And she owns DANK, a banana bread company inspired by her vegan sister and rock climbing friends.…
When I grow up, I want to be Willow King. Or, maybe more accurately, I just want to move to Boulder, CO, hang out with Willow and her co-founder, Mara, and eat fermented things…
I’m starting to sense a theme in many food startups: families. When people decide to hop into entrepreneurship, especially in such a passion driven business as food, they want to do so with people…
What do Colombia, Kermit the Frog and a mariachi band have in common? Not much, except for the fact that they’re all tied together in one person: Jonathan Echeverry. As a kid, Jonathan split his…