Leah talks with Michael McDonald the Client Services Manager for Blue Ridge Food Ventures. Blue Ridge Food Ventures is an 11,000-square-foot shared-use kitchen and natural products manufacturing facility that offers support in product development, guidance through the maze of government regulations, equipment for bottling and packaging, advice on marketing and label design, and much more.… Continue reading Podcast – Blue Ridge Food Ventures Podcast
Ana Mitchell “Cracker Queen” and boxes of Roots and Branches Crackers When you’ve operated a successful restaurant in Asbury Park, New Jersey patronized by the famous, including Bruce Springsteen, and then decide to sell it, what’s your next business move? Once Clark and Ana Mitchell sold the Twisted Root Cafe in New Jersey, their… Continue reading Roots and Branches: On Crackers and the Zombie Apocalypse
Leah talks with Lin Johnson from Mimi’s Mountain Mixes. www.mimismountainmixes.com.
Leah talks with Clark Mitchell from Roots and Branches Crackers. www.rootsandbranchesavl.com.
Leah talks with John Coker managing partner of Naked Apple Hard Cider a locally made hard cider made with locally sourced apples. www.nakedapplehardcider.com.
Leah talks with Alyssa Deroni from www.lavieweye.com who makes delicious food from crickets.
Many of us have probably read journalist and food activist, Michael Pollan’s famous quote, “Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.” But how did (depending on your age) our parents, grandparents or great-grandparents really eat? I had this idea to interview some seniors to ask that question. You’ll be happy to learn that if your parent… Continue reading Food Recollections: On Coconut Cake and a Grape Nehi
We all had that first job, the start of our professional career as dietitians. Like our first love, the first job often leaves the biggest impression and can sometimes even result in making a crucial decision about our career path. My first job as a registered dietitian was as the Chief of Clinical Dietetics at… Continue reading Words of Wisdom: Advice to New Dietitians
Several years ago on a family trip to Dollywood, Dolly Parton’s theme park nestled in the mountains of East Tennessee, we passed the Bush’s beans plant. I marveled at the large complex but we were on a mission, to take a 10 year old to an amusement park, so we had no time to stop.… Continue reading Desperately Seeking DUKE ( A Visit to Bush’s Beans)
Stephanie Fairweather, dietetic intern at Lenoir-Rhyne University contributed this post. What kind of grocery shopping and eating changes would a person recently diagnosed with Celiac disease need to make in life? May is Celiac Awareness Month, and Ingles Markets Dietitian Leah McGrath posed this question, challenging me to observe and experience how food buying… Continue reading Guest Post: The Celiac Challenge
