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Meaningful Marketplace Podcast, The Joy Of Creation Production House
Telling The Stories Of Food Entrepreneurs. Host Sarah Masoni is Director of Product & Process Development at the OSU Food Innovation Center, who the New York Times called the woman with the million dollar palate, and fellow host Sarah Marshall is the founder of Marshall's Haute Sauce, makers of delicious fresh and local small batch farm-to-table hot sauces. Each week, they speak with food startup entrepreneurs from around the world.
#8 Viva Brasilia. Junea Rocha, Brazi Bites
Pretty straightforward beginning, Junea Rocha and her husband decided to bring their Brazilian cheese bread to the US market in 2011. But nothing stays straightforward. Junea went to Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center's "Recipe to Market" class that gave them a big boost developing a product to show to a buyer in 12 weeks. They were excited with their start, but it was a full year to have a product ready for market. They developed it through Kitchen Crew a community commissary. But full production required eventually opeing their own facility until they got to a volume that's landed them with a co-packer - the complete evolution! Frozen AND gluten-free made the journey difficult because it was a unique category at the time, so these pioneers opened the door for many entrepreneurs with the passion for good food and good taste. But what's it like to be husband and wife running the same company? Sometimes have been really intense getting things off the ground, but the rewards of reaching their goals has been a great business and personal partnership.
Thank you for Listening to The Meaningful Marketplace Podcast with your hosts, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center and Sarah Marshall, owner of Marshall's Haute Sauce. Connect with us on Instagram @meaningfulmarketplacepodcast. Audio engineer, mixer, and podcast editor: Haley Bowers Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design Production Coordinator: Kayleen Veatch
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#7 We DO Know Beans About Food. Vivian Lee, Mung Dynasty Foods
It's all about mung beans. To solve the long standing problem of lackluster flavor and texture in veggie burgers, Vivian Lee saw the mung bean as the golden ticket. And along the way, give people who want plant based food alongside their animal proteins. Mung Dynasty Foods is an infant company and Vivian is just now getting her veggie burgers in stores. Vivian is a child of Korean immigrants who loved Korean food had it every meal When they bought an all American diner in Ann Arbor, Michigan Vivian soon had Hungarian goulash, hamburger steak in addition to more great Korean food. So her palate grew as well as her discrimination for good tasting food. It also was the inspiration for working Korean kimchi flavors into her line.
Thank you for Listening to The Meaningful Marketplace Podcast with your hosts, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center and Sarah Marshall, owner of Marshall's Haute Sauce. Connect with us on Instagram @meaningfulmarketplacepodcast. Audio engineer, mixer, and podcast editor: Haley Bowers Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design Production Coordinator: Kayleen Veatch
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#6 Milk Cows, Make Vodka. Tessa Koch, TMK Creamery
Cows are not cows at TMK, they're "Cowlebrities". Treating the cows with tender loving care and showing them at fairs and winning ribbons is part of getting the best natural milk on the planet. And it goes into fabulous cheese, soft serve ice cream - and vodka too. Tessa and Todd Koch also involve the community. They have tours seven days a week and show off the farm so they are transparent about where your food comes from as it gets. Oregon State University had a big effect on their life with its tremendous agricultural program, and the creamery there provided the foundation for being in business. And the vodka? What's that about? It's called "Cowcohol" (of course). The whey that's left after the cheese making is fermented and distilled. Entrepreneurs are ALWAYS thinking, even about their cows..
Thank you for Listening to The Meaningful Marketplace Podcast with your hosts, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center and Sarah Marshall, owner of Marshall's Haute Sauce. Connect with us on Instagram @meaningfulmarketplacepodcast. Audio engineer, mixer, and podcast editor: Haley Bowers Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design Production Coordinator: Kayleen Veatch
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#5 Eat Great, Live Great. Lucinda Whitacker, Great Life By Lucinda
Starting after the last econ crash, around 2009, Lucinda left her vegetarian restaurant on Oregon's Coast to sell her packaged food products. Great Life By Lucinda offers butters and cream cheeses of imaginative flavors in the cold section of the grocery store. The dry products are the latest and becoming the greatest. You just add water to her veggie burger mix and you have a meatless meat product for burgers, tacos, lasagna or whatever you can think of. Cutting meat consumption is Lucinda's hot button right now. Her claim is that if people cut 1/3 of their meat consumption it can cut emissions 50%. And that makes Life Great.
Thank you for Listening to The Meaningful Marketplace Podcast with your hosts, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center and Sarah Marshall, owner of Marshall's Haute Sauce. Connect with us on Instagram @meaningfulmarketplacepodcast. Audio engineer, mixer, and podcast editor: Haley Bowers Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design Production Coordinator: Kayleen Veatch
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#4 Entrepreneurs Have Fire in the Belly. This One Sells it Too. Valerie Roth, Mind Your Manna
Holistic health tonics. That's what Valeri Roth, of Mind Your Manna produces. Under the product name of Fire Brew (great name!) these all-natural drinks are distilled from plant nutrients and are akin to "drinking your daily vitamins". People take these power shots usually in two-ounce doses, each bottle contains about four shots. Drink with some sparkling water, mix it in with your food or put it in your water bottle for flavor and health. About five years ago, Valerie went back for an education to become a nutritionist and really dug into the healing qualities of food and particularly Eastern foods. She learned of a health tonic that was hot and fiery, home-brewed and amazing. When she found out the consumer couldn't buy this tonic at a store, she had her epiphany, taking the tonic to the people. The fire was lit.
Thank you for Listening to The Meaningful Marketplace Podcast with your hosts, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center and Sarah Marshall, owner of Marshall's Haute Sauce. Connect with us on Instagram @meaningfulmarketplacepodcast. Audio engineer, mixer, and podcast editor: Haley Bowers Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design Production Coordinator: Kayleen Veatch
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#3 Yvonne Fide, Momo Cocoa
With Sarah Masoni at the Fancy Foods meeting with a Food Innovation Center contingent, Sarah Marshall talks with Yvonne Fide and Ian Levy In their third year in business, Momo Cocoa innovating and pushing forward. A new product in the brewing cocoa category, their tea is made with whole bean cacao, ground with a bit of black tea added. It is then roasted similarly to coffee beans, and is then brewed like tea in a pouch or French press. The company currently has six flavors of cocoa mixes, non-dairy and organic with organic spices added. Ingredients come mainly straight from the farm and are part of elevating the art of sharing chocolate with family and friends. This came from Yvonne's growing up in Southern California and embracing the fall comfort time even in the background of warm weather. Her determination to create a warm and cuddly environment in spite of the sunshine was her driving force to build the company she has today.
Thank you for Listening to The Meaningful Marketplace Podcast with your hosts, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center and Sarah Marshall, owner of Marshall's Haute Sauce. Connect with us on Instagram @meaningfulmarketplacepodcast. Audio engineer, mixer, and podcast editor: Haley Bowers Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design Production Coordinator: Kayleen Veatch
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#2 Meaningful Marketplace: Masoni Interviews Marshall
Now we switch roles, Masoni interviews Marshall. Sarah Marshall's first food experience was her Mom's homemade approach to meals. Referring to her as a Hippie Mom, Marshall remembers her Mom's home-baked bread in a coffee can. Although not all that practical because it tended to crumble and had too many seeds, it was sweet and comforting and was a family activity. And it lead Marshall to the local-sourcing, homemade taste that is the foundation for her company today. Her passion for canning bloomed when she was a social worker in the Portland, Oregon area. The work was emotionally tough, and canning food at home became her therapy. As she canned more and more, she began teaching others. And she started creating sauces for the children she oversaw. Since many were on the "spectrum", she had to pay special attention to avoiding additives, so her penchant for pure, fresh food took hold. Her recipes reflected this philosophy and became the blueprint for her future products. Taking business classes while still a social worker, Marshall considered a food cart at one time, but decided to can and distribute her sauce instead. Now, her company is a certified kitchen in her home where she, husband and daughter have made a life doing what they love.
"Masoni and Marshall the meaningful Marketplace" with your hosts Sarah Masoni and Sarah Marshall
We record the "the Meaningful Marketplace" inside NedSpace in the Bigfoot Podcast Studio in beautiful downtown Portland.
Audio engineer, mixer and podcast editor is Allon Beausoleil
Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design
Website was designed by Cameron Grimes
Production assistant is Chelsea Lancaster
10% of gross revenue at Startup Radio Network goes to support women entrepreneurs in developing countries thru kiva.org/lender/markgrimes
Listen to the "Masoni and Marshall the meaningful marketplace" live on-air every Friday at 9:00am pacific time on Startup Radio Network at startupradionetwork.com
Thank you for Listening to The Meaningful Marketplace Podcast with your hosts, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center and Sarah Marshall, owner of Marshall's Haute Sauce. Connect with us on Instagram @meaningfulmarketplacepodcast. Audio engineer, mixer, and podcast editor: Haley Bowers Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design Production Coordinator: Kayleen Veatch
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#1 Meaningful Marketplace: Marshall Interviews Masoni
The show hosts interview each other so you can get to know the them in depth; their background, experience, attitudes and ethics. In this episode, Sarah Marshall, founder of Marshall's Haute Sauce interviews her past mentor and now friend, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center. Masoni's mission is to help food entrepreneurs take their product to market successfully, or give them the tough love news that their product isn't ready for prime time. Marshall calls her the "artist and Fairy Godmother making food dreams come true", because Masoni has an amazing palate that has guided many companies through the maze of going from the kitchen to the mass production process that gets the product to the consumer's table. Masoni doesn't go for gimicky ideas either. She's interested in real food, ethically procured and processed with a fabulous taste and she's very straightforward and candid with her clients. A speaker, sought after panel member and budding author, Masoni considers herself "CEO to a thousand food companies", because her candor and integrity has the ear of the C-suite when they need to hear the truth about their food products.
"Masoni and Marshall the meaningful Marketplace" with your hosts Sarah Masoni and Sarah Marshall
We record the "the Meaningful Marketplace" inside NedSpace in the Bigfoot Podcast Studio in beautiful downtown Portland.
Audio engineer, mixer and podcast editor is Allon Beausoleil
Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design
Website was designed by Cameron Grimes
Production assistant is Chelsea Lancaster
10% of gross revenue at Startup Radio Network goes to support women entrepreneurs in developing countries thru kiva.org/lender/markgrimes
Listen to the "Masoni and Marshall the meaningful marketplace" live on-air every Friday at 9:00am pacific time on Startup Radio Network at startupradionetwork.com
Thank you for Listening to The Meaningful Marketplace Podcast with your hosts, Sarah Masoni of Oregon State University's Food Innovation Center and Sarah Marshall, owner of Marshall's Haute Sauce. Connect with us on Instagram @meaningfulmarketplacepodcast. Audio engineer, mixer, and podcast editor: Haley Bowers Show logo was designed by Anton Kimball of Kimball Design Production Coordinator: Kayleen Veatch
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