why food

Join us for a conversation with Rob Dunn, professor of applied ecology and author of the new book Delicious, about the ways that flavor has influenced human evolution. The book is a fascinating look at how humans have always thought about flavor, and how our search for delicious things to eat has supported our evolution, contributed to our diverse cuisines and cultures, and driven interactions with our natural and built environments.

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Join us for a conversation with Alex Godin, founder of Lemontree, a non-profit that helps hungry people find free food. He started his career when he was still in high school–dropping out to raise $1M in venture funding for his first startup. Since then he's organized a celebrity telethon with stars like Herbie Hancock and Judd Apatow, an adult summer camp, and the internet's premier destination for hand-painted oil paintings of emojis.

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Join us for a conversation with Sue Bette, owner of Bluebird Barbecue in Burlington, Vermont. Sue is a James Beard Award-nominee and former educator who uses her restaurants to build a connection between food, health, and mental well-being. She is a member of the Leadership group of the Independent Restaurant Coalition, and the recent co-founder of Vermont Independent Restaurants, an emerging coalition to preserve and advance the VT restaurant industry faced with challenges from the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Join us for a conversation with Andre Springer, Founder of Shaquanda Will Feed You. Andre was born in the Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY, and is of Barbadian descent. Andre began performing in the streets and bars of NYC at the age of 20, with much of his art being the creation of his drag alter ego, Shaquanda Coca Mulatta. The body of Andre's work has been in performance, sculpture, and film. While manifesting his creative side he also spent 18 years in the restaurant industry as a waiter, bartender, manager, and maitre d'. Shaquanda’s Hot Pepper Sauce was created at Bushwig in 2014, a drag festival that happens every year in NYC. Shaquanda’s Hot Pepper Sauce can be found in specialty shops across the United States and most recently in whole foods at all the North East region locations. The brand was featured in popular food publications like Bon Appetite, Edible, Serious Eats, Delish, Buzz Feed, NY Times Gift Guide, and was a favorite in season 9 and 13 of the popular hit youtube series “Hot Ones”.

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Nicole Januarie is a Director/Producer of Vallery's new series, Vallery Bakes Your Questions, on Food Network. Nicole partners with brands and individuals to assess how to creatively communicate their message through strong and impactful content. After more than a decade of ideating, strategizing, producing, and directing videos for multi-million dollar brands and start-ups, Nicole has learned what truly drives conversations and moves individuals to an emotional connection. It's not mastering the new flavor of the week; it's how well you connect with the beating-hearts of people you're trying to help and inspire, and how effectively you communicate your understanding of their needs back to them.

The former Managing Partner and co-founder of 19th & Park Inc., and 2019 Adweek Creative 100 honoree, recently focused her attention on launching her own production company, Januarie 1st Inc. It's a full-service creative development and production company whose work includes commercials, television shows, branded content, and more. She's been featured in WWD, Forbes, ESSENCE, and appeared on the grand jury for the New York Festivals Advertising Awards and Adweek's Experiential Awards.

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Join us for a conversation with Manal Kahi, co-founder and CEO of Eat Offbeat, a refugee-driven food company that delivers authentic eats & treats made by refugees who now call New York City home. Manal moved to NYC to pursue a career in environmental affairs, but the Hummus she found in grocery stores led her on a different journey. She founded Eat Offbeat to help New Yorkers discover authentic cuisines from around the world all the while creating quality jobs for talented refugees.

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Join us for a conversation with Deb Perelman, author of the legendary blog Smitten Kitchen. Deb is a self-taught home cook, photographer, and the creator of smittenkitchen.com, as well as the author of the New York Times bestselling cookbooks "The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook" and "Smitten Kitchen Every Day." Deb lives in New York City with her husband and their two children.

Photo Courtesy of Christine Han.

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Join us for a conversation with Heather Marold Thomason, butcher and owner of Primal Supply Meats. Primal Supply is a Philly-based butchery committed to whole animal practices and changing the local food system. Heather went from dance to graphic design to butchery, training in pasture-based livestock farming and whole animal butchery. In 2016, she founded Primal Supply Meats, a modern butchery and grocery.

Photo Courtesy of Jillian Guyette.

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Join us for a conversation with Paige Lipari, local hero and owner/cook of Archestratus Books + Foods in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Lipari is a Sicilian-American poet, music maker, cartoonist, and cook. Her collection of poems, music, and illustrations, Family of Many Enzos, was published by Augury Books in 2012. She was previously an editor at A Public Space. She worked in many of NYC’s finest bookstores (McNally Jackson, Idlewild, and Housing Works Bookstore to name a few) before opening her own. Lipari is the owner/cook of Archestratus Books + Foods, a food-interest bookshop, Sicilian cafe/grocery, community space, and collaborative durational art project in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. She currently lives a few blocks from the shop with her cat Olafi Lorenzo and zooms regularly with her 99 year old Nonna, Oliva.

Photo Courtesy of Paige Lipari.

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Join us for a conversation with legendary food writer Mark Bittman to discuss his brand new book Animal, Vegetable, Junk, a history of food and humanity. Mark has been a leading voice in global food culture and policy for more than three decades. Born in New York City in 1950, Bittman began writing professionally in 1978. After five years as a general assignment reporter, he turned all of his attention to food. His first cookbook, Fish: The Complete Guide to Buying and Cooking, was published in 1994 and remains in print; since then he has written or co-written thirty others, including the How to Cook Everything series. He has received six James Beard Awards, four IACP Awards, and numerous other honors. Mark is also the editor-in-chief of The Mark Bittman Project, a newsletter and website focusing on all aspects of food - from political to delicious.

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Join us for a conversation with Claire Schlemme and Caroline Cotto, Cofounders of Renewal Mill. Committed to finding solutions at the intersection of food, sustainability, and accessible nutrition, Renewal Mill is an award-winning startup creating a new circular economy of food by upcycling the byproducts of food manufacturing into premium ingredients & plant-based products. Their signature product is okara flour, made from the byproducts of tofu and soy milk manufacturing.

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Join us for a conversation with chef and entrepreneur Kiki Aranita. Kiki is co-chef and owner of Poi Dog, a Hawaiian restaurant and catering company that closed its Rittenhouse, Philadelphia location in July 2020. For years, her goals involved celebrating the underrepresented cuisines of multicultural origins as well as seeking to minimize food waste. She recently launched a line of bottled Poi Dog sauces inspired by Hawaiian cuisine and favorite dishes from her restaurant. She is also a writer who has contributed food writing and narratives to many publications and has served on the charitable events boards of No Kid Hungry Philadelphia, C-CAP Philadelphia, Feastival, and Vetri Community Partnership’s Eat to Empower. A former classicist who specialized in the reception of classical epic poetry, she is the current chair of the Hahn Scholarship Committee, which sends students to the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the American Academy in Rome.

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Join us for a conversation with Anjali Bhargava, founder and CEO of Drink Resilience turmeric elixirs. A former portrait photographer, Anjali decided to launch her own turmeric power, sourcing fresh turmeric and dehydrating it with other fresh ingredients, and Resilience was born in 2015.

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Join us for a conversation with Yorm Ackuaku, the founder of esSense 13. A platform dedicated to raising the profile of African food globally, esSense 13 has hosted events including the African continent's first food hackathon, food business pitch competitions and dining experiences in Accra, New York City, Washington D.C. and London. A former CPA, Yorm graduated from Marquette University and holds an MBA degree from Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. In 2018, Yorm launched and is host of 'Item 13: An African Food Podcast', an audio production that celebrates the stories of African food entrepreneurs around the world. After 2 years of self-production, Item 13 is now part of Heritage Radio Network, America’s premier food radio station. She was also recently featured in Food & Wine, for her work in promoting African cuisines on a global stage. 
 

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Join us for a conversation with Zoe Adjonyoh, chef, author and food justice activist from London. Zoe is the founder of Zoe's Ghana Kitchen, the UK's first contemporary West African dining concept (2010) and has a cookbook by the same name published by Mitchel & Beazley (2017). Zoe is also the co-founder and the Creative Director of Black Book (blackbook-global.com) a platform for delivering true representation and diversity across the food industry and lives between New York and London. Zoe drinks a lot of tea and loves really great quality 'junk' food. 

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Join us for a conversation with Sebastian & Guillermo, the duo behind acclaimed food photography studio SOGA Design Collective. SOGA Design Collective is a multidisciplinary design studio in Brooklyn, New York. The studio was conceived in Miami, Florida in 2008. SOGA makes music for your eyes. Their studio combines purposeful eclecticism and nuanced design to create colorfully charged compositions utilizing all disciplines. A Miamian at heart, Guillermo is a detail-oriented obsessive who seeks to inject color into everything he touches. Originally from Nicaragua, Sebastian was formally trained in architecture before stepping behind the lens. He believes design from scale to rhythm to function, is universal and can be applied to everything he generates (even chaos has order). Their client list includes Baldor Specialty Foods, Jet.com (now Walmart.com), Burlap + Barrel, Ark Foods, Dig Inn, Fellow Barber and Murray’s Cheese among many others.

Image Courtesy of SOGA Design Collective

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Join us for a conversation with Barkha Cardoz, wife of the late Chef Floyd Cardoz and architect of the new line of Floyd Cardoz Legacy Masalas in partnership with Ethan's spice company Burlap & Barrel. Barkha received her culinary training at The Institute of Hotel management in Mumbai, India and worked in the Development department at St. Peter’s Preparatory School in Jersey City, NJ. With her husband, she managed their Bombay Bread Bar in New York City from 2016 to 2019 and oversaw fundraising events for The Young Scientist Foundation, founded in 2011 with Floyd’s $110,000 Top Chef Masters win. Barkha is currently the Managing Member of Cardoz Legacy LLC, where she actively executes ongoing legacy projects including the FC + B&B Collaboration Masala spice line.

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Join Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with John deBary, co-founder and board president of the Restaurant Workers Community Foundation, a nonprofit focused on improving the quality of life of hospitality employees. He got his start in the hospitality industry bartending in 2008 at PDT, the world-famous and James Beard Award-winning New York speakeasy. He joined the acclaimed Momofuku restaurant group a year later, where he was the group’s bar director until 2018. John is now the CEO and founder of Proteau, a non-alcoholic botanical drinks company. He lives in New York City with his husband and cat.

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Join us for a conversation with Kristen Miglore, Founding Editor of the website Food52. Kristen abandoned a career in economics in 2007 to work in food media, tackling a master's degree in food studies from New York University and a culinary degree from the Institute of Culinary Education along the way. She is the author of the award winning cookbooks Genius Recipes and Genius Desserts.

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Join us for a conversation with Sylvie Charles and Liselle Pires, founders of Just Date Syrup. Sylvie is a medical doctor who, after experimenting with low-sugar achaars and chutneys, turned the dates into a syrup, and realized she had struck on something powerful and decide to build a company around it. Liselle started her career in tech, and while at Microsoft, realized that she wanted to make a bigger impact on health - to shift how the masses thought about and consumed food every day.

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