2: Not to Yuck My Mom's Yum, with Melanie Rogers of Slow Brine

Melanie has a pickle problem, and there’s only one way to solve it: More pickles! Can she pickle anything? We explore the difficulty of starting a food business when you have no experience, and getting hung up on the details that don’t matter (or do they?). There’s value in an enthusiastic partner when starting a business who helps with the heavy lifting (literally and figuratively). In our Wrap-id Fire round, we explore ‘kraut and pickle pairings, some good, some... less good.

Links and Show Notes

• Slow Brine


• Sauerkraut, Kimchi, and Pickles


• What Is Fermentation? Benefits of Fermentation + How to Ferment Foods


• Natural Chef program at Bauman College in Berkeley, CA.


• 99 Designs


• Half Moon Bay Wasabi Farm


• Wasabi plant


• Coastside Kraut


• SobreMesa


• Miso


• Do You Know Your Tsukemono? A Guide to Japanese Pickles


• Blaukraut


• Salvadoran Curtido


• Fiery Kimchi


• Seed and Salt Sauerkraut


• Local company wins food award. Slow Brine noted for sauerkraut


• Celery Seeds


• Nigella


• Half sour vs. Full sour


• Umeboshi


• Pickle ice cream


• Garlic ice cream


• Pickleback recipe


• Dirty Martini recipe


• Bloody Mary recipe


• White Cucumber/White Wonder


• Ghost Pickles


• Ghost Chiles


• Where to buy Slow Brine
  
  
  • Coastside Farmers’ Market, Half Moon Bay, CA
  
  
  • Castro Famers’ Market, San Francisco, CA
  
  
  • Fort Mason Farmers’ Market, San Francisco, CA
  
  
  • Spangler’s Market, Half Moon Bay, CA
  
  
  • Rainbow Grocery, San Francisco, CA
  
  
  • Driver’s Market, Sausalito, CA
  
  
  • Oceana Market, Pacifica, CA
  
  
  • Bianchi’s Market, San Carlos, CA
  
  
  • Palace Market, Point Reyes, CA
  
  

Our thanks to Melanie for joining us. You can find her online at slowbrine.com and @slowbrine on Instagram.

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Special Guest: Melanie Rogers, Slow Brine.