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Send us Fan Mail Our episode was invaded by two small family members sharing their favorite Passover foods.  Find our previous bonus episode on Passover here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bonus-episode-passover/id1523500120?i=1000556376509 Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Returning guest Matthew Kaplowitz joins us for a special announcement about a new project he is working on.  You can find information about Matthew and his projects as well as information related to his new endeavor here:   Trek Untold https://www.trekuntold.com/ Press Record Studios  https://pressrecordstudios.com/ Trek Long Island https://treklongisland.com/ Star Trek Cookbook h...

Send us Fan Mail Sloan is back for more and we learn about how a well known national brand got their start.  References and further reading:  https://americanbakers.org/news/women-baking-pioneers-did-it-their-way https://www.foodandwine.com/cooking-techniques/baking/bread-bakers-around-the-world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Silverton#:~:text=Nancy%20Silverton%20(born%20June%2020,breads%20in...

Send us Fan Mail Sloan is back with more stories. Thank you Sloan for these special episodes for Women's History Month.  Resources and Further Reading: https://americanbakers.org/news/women-baking-pioneers-did-it-their-way https://www.foodandwine.com/cooking-techniques/baking/bread-bakers-around-the-world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Silverton#:~:text=Nancy%20Silverton%20(born%20June%2...

Send us Fan Mail Welcome to Sloan this week who in honor of Women's history Month has come prepared with stories of women in the baking industry. Thank you Sloan!  References and further reading:  https://americanbakers.org/news/women-baking-pioneers-did-it-their-way https://www.foodandwine.com/cooking-techniques/baking/bread-bakers-around-the-world https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Silvert...

Send us Fan Mail Braden was able to attend BakingTech 2025 in Orlando, Florida and he is here to share with you about the amazing students who participated in the product development competition.  Special thanks to the American Society of Baking for allowing us to record at BakingTech and to their director of education, Sarah Day, who manages the competition and spoke to us. Find more about ASB he...

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Andreas Duess of 6 Seeds Consulting about his work with the food industry and how we work now and can work in the future with A.I.  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with Sr. Applications Specialist Christopher Gizzi about Sunset Glaze and why it is great to shine so many bakery applications.  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Thank you to all who have listened throughout the year. Enjoy our final episode of 2024 while we work on new episodes for 2025. Have a wonderful New Year.  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail the world's only sourdough Liberian, Karl de Smedt, talks with Will Grant, 2017 Caputo Cup Non-Traditional Division Champion about sourdough live from the Puratos Issaquah Innovation Center. Learn more about the Sourdough Library Find more about WIll's restaurants and his competition career  Karl and Will have been on the show before so check out their previous episodes....

Send us Fan Mail Connie spoke with Maria Cho, the CEO of Triplebar, all about her fascinating work and how her company works in the food industry. You can find more about Triplebar on their website Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Braden hosts a conversation with special Guest host Brendan who spoke to Branden and Amy two of our summer interns from Johnson & Wales. Enjoy! Learn more about Johnson & Wales Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We are excited to share an episode recorded by two of our summer interns, Brendan and Alex all about fruit and fruit fillings. Enjoy! Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We sit down and talk about Zhixin's passion for food, how she got into the industry, and what she saw at the IFT Conference in Chicago. Zhixin will be leading the IFT Philadelphia chapter for the upcoming year so if you have questions on this or anything food science related you can reach here at: zwang@puratos.com Find IFT at: https://www.ift.org/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUS...

Send us Fan Mail We sat down with Chef Elliott from the Pennsauken School District to learn about the bakery school program and all the great work he does with the students there.  You can find more on the School District here and more on the bakery school program here .  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We talk with one of our bakery school interns Matthew about his journey into the industry and his experience in the bakery program in high school. For more on Bakery Schools go to: https://www.bakeryschoolfoundation.com/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Enjoy this conversation we had back in 2021 with two awesome and funny gentlemen. You can find their work at: https://maximumfun.org/podcasts/we-got-this-with-mark-and-hal/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We speak with Chef Esther McManus about her career and how she went from not cooking as a girl in Morocco to professional chef and baker in Philadelphia. Thank you to Chef Fran Costigan for introducing us to Chef Esther.  You can find Chef Esther's episode of Baking with Julia and her Moth episode here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHdLgEjx5KA https://themoth.org/storytell...

Send us Fan Mail The title says it all. Welcome back (if for however brief a time) Connie!  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We speak with Casey Chumrau the CEO of the Washington Grain Commission. We learn all about grain and how local and national commissions work with farmers. You can find out more about the Commission at: https://wagrains.org/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail Time for Braden's favorite topic- A.I. We spoke with Fisayo Oluwadiya about her new product which uses A.I to help recommend your next great dining experience.  Find our more at: https://www.resactly.com/ Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We are happy to welcome Kelly Patraju as one of our newest co-hosts. Welcome Kelly! Kelly interviewed the world's only sourdough librarian- Karl De Smedt. Karl was in New Jersey to share about the 10 year anniversary of the Sourdough Library.  Find out more about Karl and the Library here: https://www.questforsourdough.com/puratos-library https://sourdoughlibrary.puratos.com/...

Send us Fan Mail I sat down with Michelle Sacchetti and Tom Del Rossi from Puratos to talk about our journey of implementing Trust and Inspire. Make sure you listen to our episode with David Kasperson to fully enjoy this episode as it is a followup and dives into the journey and work it takes to bring an organization on a trust and inspire journey.  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS...

Send us Fan Mail We get insight into what return guest Jeff Akin has been up to since his last appearance and what he has learned about leadership. Find more about Jeff here Jeff's Other Podcast  Find Puratos at: @PuratosUSA- Twitter @PuratosUS- Instagram puratos.us

Send us Fan Mail We spoke with David Kasperson a Director at Franklin Covey's Global Trust Practice and co-author of Trust and Inspire. You don't want to miss these insights on leadership from David! Learn more about David and the great work he and the team at Franklin Covey do around the future of leadership. David on Linkedin Franklin Covey Trust and Inspire  Find Puratos at: @PuratosU...