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

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

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

We are excited to share an episode recorded by two of our summer interns, Brendan and Alex all about fruit and fruit fillings. Enjoy!

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 o...

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

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...

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-wi...

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 fi...

The title says it all. Welcome back (if for however brief a time) Connie! 

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:

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/

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.&n...

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 in...

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

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 ...

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 ou...

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 Fo...

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 we...

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. 

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 busines...

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 mo...

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/

Connie recaps and shares about her trip to the IFT FIRST convention that took place last month in Chicago. https://www.iftevent.org/

Here is part of an unaired conversation with Chef Fran Costigan - Enjoy https://francostigan.com/