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Aug 31, 2019

Chef Mark Chura is from Burley Foods and is responsible for sending some listeners and new friends to the podcast - in fact, I met a new scientist at the American Food Innovate Summit in Chicago in February because she had been keeping a look out for me because he had shared the podcast with her.

Chef Mark has a...


Aug 24, 2019

Dr. Ashley Colpaart is the founder and CEO of The Food Corridor, a national network of shared commercial kitchen space serving small food companies. Director of Community Rachael Miller was an early season 3 guest and shared the concept of connecting commercial kitchen space owners to possible rental clients. Finding...


Aug 17, 2019

Stan Sagner went from media to line cooking and back to media, though now in a more strategy-focused way. His transition to culinary is similar to several that I’ve met who attended culinary school “later in life” - he was working in a fast-paced, stressful world and wanted to get out. So he went into cooking....


Aug 10, 2019

Food writer and professionally trained cook Stan Sagner went to culinary school while he was also working full time in a high stress media role. Though he was surviving his classes, he recounts a story of how a chef instructor told him that he would have to choose whether he was going to focus on the course or stick to...


Aug 3, 2019

Taylor Walker is the newest addition to the leadership team at CuliNex, having joined the organization about a year ago. As the director of brand protection, Taylor leverages her experience as a food scientist and plant operations professional and brings a unique eye to commercialization and production management to the...