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Michael Family Farms is a family-owned grower located in Urbana, Ohio. Michael Family Farms combines family tradition with the newest farming technologies to supply the region's top retail stores and restaurants with the finest potatoes. The farm's location means it can deliver its fresh potatoes with minimal food miles and a lower total transportation cost to customers throughout the Midwestern US. 

Sun-Glo of Idaho is a family-owned grower, packer, and shipper of premium quality fresh Idaho® Russet Burbank and Norkotah potatoes, with state of the art facilities and sales operations in Sugar City, Idaho. Located at the base of the Teton mountain range, the Crapo family grows the highest quality potatoes by combining generations of knowledge, modern technology, and old-fashioned hard work. Sun-Glo also markets potatoes and Idaho-grown onions under the Sun Supreme brand. The Crapo family grows their seed potatoes, which they then use to plant their crop, ensuring superior quality control from field to fork.

Chef Omar Tate has spent the last ten years in the restaurant industry working in some of the best restaurants in New York City and Philadelphia including A Voce, Fork, Meadowsweet, Runner and Stone, and Russet. He finds the intersection of science, art, craft, and the physicality of line cooking to be unique and the most alluring aspects of the profession. Chef Omar has been exploring his heritage to bring balance and equity to his profession. He has researched and produced dinners dedicated to honoring chefs, writers, and figures in history representative of African American culture. Currently he is sous chef at The Henry alongside executive chef JJ Johnson, and chef de cuisine Samantha Davis where together they explore the diverse aspects of African influence throughout the globe. He is also the mind behind Honeysuckle, a dinner pop up series dedicated to exploring black heritage through food using various forms of art to bring stories to the plate and engage with diners.

Photo courtesy of Haamza Edwards Photography.

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He covers savory, she covers sweet, and everything else comes together between them. That's how chefs Andrew and Kristin Wood have been working together since they first met, and how they do now as parents and co-owners of Russet in Philadelphia. Many years, several moves cross-country, and two children later, they've got many pearls of wisdom to share on how they make it all work. So sit back and enjoy the second of our Power Couples series.