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Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Jillian Donie a CIA student and Puratos Intern. She also likes Star Trek! We learn about what an education is like in the culinary arts and play a fun game involving a very old book that no baker should be without. Find out more about the CIA   Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Fred Wasiak the President and CEO of the Food Bank of South Jersey. Fred shares about their mission and how everyone can be involved. We also learned a lot about the YMCA. Tune in to hear how that came up.  Find the Food Bank at: https://foodbanksj.org/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Beth Karam-Putt from Erika Record about her journey as a pastry chef and how she landed a job helping companies find just the right equipment for their baking, pastry, and chocolate needs.   Find Erika Record on the web at:  https://erikarecord.com/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We are back for a 2023 wrap-up to clear the slate of tasting items and share what direction we are going in for 2024.  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We talked with Tarsha Joyner about her journey from foster care to parent, artist, bakery owner, TV Competition Star, and so much more. Her journey is amazing so you don't want to miss this conversation.  Find Tarsha and her business at: https://mrsjoys.com/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Patrick Honeywell the corporate chef at Le Chef Bakery about his life and how he went from traveling to an Alaskan gold mining camp to being a sucessful pastry chef and business person. Thank you Patrick and you can see more of what he does at Le Chef at: https://www.lechefbakery.com/   Find his podcast here: https://bleav.com/shows/bleav-in-chefs-special/ Find Purat...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Tom Ranc, President of JAC North America all about JAC and their very interesting history and all about bread slicers.  Find JAC at: https://www.jac-machines.com/us/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Connie recaps and shares about her trip to the IFT FIRST convention that took place last month in Chicago.  https://www.iftevent.org/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Here is part of an unaired conversation with Chef Fran Costigan - Enjoy  https://francostigan.com/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We learn about the century egg from Connie and how she made one and how Braden successfully didn't taste it.  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We spoke to Kayla Croshaw better known on TikTok and Instagram as Kayla Doughshaw. Look her up.  You won't regret it. Seriously we will wait while you go check her videos out.  We would also like to apologize for all the noise Connie makes when recording.  We are considering replacing her with a bull and recording from a china shop. it would be less noisy.  Find Puratos at: @...

Send us Fan Mail In honor of Father's Day coming up this Sunday we have a special bonus episode with a special bonus guest host. Wishing all the dads a wonderful day!  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Pedro Sousa from Puratos Canada about how he landed in our great neighbor to the north and his exciting journey in the world of the pasty arts.  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We spoke to Jessica Formicola of Savory Experiments all about her journey and her creative endeavors. It was a great conversation with so many wonderful stories and we even met her cat! Find Jessica at:  https://www.savoryexperiments.com/ https://www.facebook.com/SavoryExperiments https://www.instagram.com/savoryexperiments/ https://twitter.com/Savory_Cooking Find Puratos at: @Pur...

Send us Fan Mail We sit down with Founder and CEO of Une Femme Wines Jen Pelka to talk wine and what it takes to grow a successful business and the power and challenges of being women led and working primarily with other women led businesses.  Find all things Une Femme here: https://unefemmewines.com/pages/press Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We speak with Ari Tulla of ELO Health  about food as medicine and living a healthy lifestyle.   Find ELO Health at: https://www.elo.health/articles/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We speak with Ellie the founder and CEO of Cocoa Press. Ever wonder what it takes to build a company while engineering a machine and learning the material science behind chocolate? Well then this is the conversation for you! Find Cocoa Press at: https://cocoapress.com/pages/contact @cocoapress- FB/IG/TW https://www.tiktok.com/@elianarose66 Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @Pu...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Coinneach MacLeod all about baking, Scotland and Euro Vision!?! He is a great guy and a talented baker. Check him and his books out (and maybe stay for the photos of his adorable dog).  Fine everything about Coinneach at his website: https://hebrideanbaker.com/ Or follow him on TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@hebrideanbaker Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @Purat...

Send us Fan Mail we speak with (reformed) pastry chef Monica Glass about her journey and how  and why she has transitioned into a more wellness focused mindset and way of working. Enjoy this conversation with a wonderful chef and human being. Find Monica at: https://chefmonicaglass.com/  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Join us and hear from Yumi Komatsudaira the author of the cookbook Japanese Superfoods and the President of K Seaweed. We learn all about sea vegetables and everything you can do with them plus great stories from the making of her book and growing up in Japan.  Find Yumi at: https://kseaweed.com/ K-Seaweed Co (@k_seaweed) • Instagram photos and videos https://www.instagram.com › k...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with podcaster and filmmaker Reyshan Parker about his journey and how he shares the stories of service industry professionals. Find all about Reyshan and his Beyond the Check series and podcast by Googling his name! Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We learn what it takes to be a successful entrepreneur plus the fascinating science behind the declious drink kombucha with Courtney Lorenz of Cultured Kombucha.  Courtney also gets personal as to the struggles female business leaders go through to succeed.  You can find Courtney at: https://www.drinkcultured.com/ Social Link are all on her site Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitt...

Send us Fan Mail We sat down and spoke with chef and cookbook author Lei Shishak about her new book on plant based eating and he journey from bakery owner to cookbook author and everything in between.  Find Lei at: https://leishishak.com/ https://www.instagram.com/leishishak/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Connie and Braden wrap up the year by antagonizing each other with mystery food and poorly written baking advice. They also share their 2022 podcast highlights and what they will be up to for the holidays.  Thank you all for listening and have a wonderful holiday season and Happy New Year!  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We talk all about overcoming the fact we don't know what we don't know (The Dunning-Kruger Effect) with Deagon Williams from Culinary Business Strategy.  Find everything she is up to here: https://www.culinarybusinessstrategy.com/ Don't forget you can check our Trek Talks 2 and support a great organization in the Hollywood Food Coalition: https://hofoco.org/ Find Pu...