RESTAURANT WHISPERER
Every week for three years sharing first-hand stories from restaurant owners, cafe owner, travel businesses and more.
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116: CAJOU -- PLANT BASED ICE CREAM STORY
The journey of Cajou Creamery started in Baltimore and like so many Baltimore-firsts is stepping up to serve culturally creative flavors as an outpouring of their Jamaican heritage and their sophisticated global outlook. Co-founders Nicole Foster and Dwight Campbell.
This episode reflects two pillars of the Six Pillars of Business Success. Pillar 1 -- brand and strategy, and Pillar 5 -- their ability to secure their co-packing and packaging which leads to many avenues of distribution.
This episode is a story about one of the best things in life -- ice cream, and it's plant based for all the good reasons! Listen and learn how this co-founders couple Nicole and Dwight conjured their sons' milk allergy into the joy ice cream brings into any family. Co-founder, father and chef, Dwight Campbell has exhaustive culinary skills -- serving steak dinners for 500 on a given evening. He experimented and tinkered with almonds and then cashews to create a plant-based ice cream recipe. Co-founder, mother and entrepreneur, Nicole Foster who is a lawyer and plant forward eater has harnessed this delicious dessert into an ice cream shop, and now is scaling up with a copacker. It's engenuity, resourcefulness and perserverence!
The journey started in Baltimore and like so many Baltimore-firsts is stepping up to serve culturally creative flavors as an outpouring of their Jamaican heritage and their sophisticated global outlook.
This episode reflects two pillars of the Six Pillars of Business Success. Pillar 1 -- brand and strategy, and Pillar 5 -- their ability to secure their co-packing and packaging which leads to many avenues of distribution.
115: THRIVING WITH BRAHM AT THE INN AT SHAKER MILL FALLS
Brahm is the farmer at the regenerative farm at The Inn at Shaker Mill Farm. Listen to this episode as an expert on how regenerative farming, is much like speaking another language in it's ability to give you new perspective, and positive perspective on life. This episode is as much about the life force that you carry in your daily life as it is about how regernative farming is the life force for our planets future.
To learn more about the work Brahm is doing at the farm, and the work Michael and others are doing at the Inn at Shaker Mills Farm, please listen back to Episode 111, or look them up and find out about workaways, retreats or a stay at the Inn with a view of the waterfall in the Waterfall Room.
In our episode we reference the following: Inn at Shaker Mill Falls You Tube Channel. Brahm referenced their Food Forest videos. Here is the link.