Why Food?
Do you daydream about dropping everything and opening a restaurant? Have you always wondered what it would be like to start your own line of condiments? So many trailblazers in the food world actually started their careers in entirely different fields. How did these folks decide to hit the brakes, start over, and become inspiring the chefs, entrepreneurs, farmers and activists they are today? Hear their stories and learn how you too can fulfill your food dreams. Join cohosts Vallery Lomas and Ethan Frisch on Why Food?
If you made a leap of faith to work in the food industry and want to share your story, please get in touch at [email protected].
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 49 minutes
- Episodes
- 176
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2021
Jose Alvarez: From Wine Importer to Soap Maker
Join co-host Ethan for a conversation with Jose Alvarez, founder of treestar*. Jose is a native New Yorker and entrepreneur who has always been excited by social psychology and consumer behavior. Has…
00:38:08 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
DeVonn Francis: From Designer to Activist Chef
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with activist, model and chef DeVonn Francis. DeVonn is a queer, first-generation Jamaican-American artist with a background in design and performanc…
00:43:41 |
Thu 05 Mar 2020
Priyanka Naik: From Data Science to the Food Network
Join co-hosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Priyanka Naik. Born and raised as a first generation Indian-American in Staten Island, she is a self-taught cook who entered and won the top pr…
00:45:15 |
Thu 27 Feb 2020
Ben Simon: From Political Campaigns to Artisan Foods
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Ben Simon, Founder & CEO of Ben to Table, a food subscription service. After a career in political campaigns with Greenpeace, Amnesty Internatio…
00:39:48 |
Thu 20 Feb 2020
Sufia Hossain: From Fashion to Hot Sauce
Join Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Sufia Hossain, Founder & CEO of Silly Chilly Hot Sauce. Sufia left a successful career as a fashion industry executive after realizing the damaging impa…
00:43:02 |
Thu 13 Feb 2020
Rahim Diallo: From Engineering to African Hospitality
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a fascinating conversation with Rahim Diallo, co-founder of Ginjan Brothers, a line of ginger juice and a new cafe in east Harlem. His career path has taken him fro…
00:54:47 |
Sat 08 Feb 2020
Shannon Roddy: How to Sell Food on Amazon
Shannon Roddy is an Amazon expert, specializing in helping food business launch and scale on the Amazon marketplace. Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for an enlightening conversation about how food ent…
00:52:03 |
Thu 30 Jan 2020
Alex Berkley, on deciding whether or not to stay in the family business
This episode was pre-recorded. Vallery Lomas sat down with Alex Berkley, Frieda Caplan's granddaughter and Head of Sales for Frieda's Produce. Frieda's Produce is a unicorn of sorts-- a business star…
00:48:39 |
Thu 23 Jan 2020
David Mawhinney: From Cooking to Carpentry
Welcome back! Vallery and Ethan speak with David Mawhinney, chef and founder of Franklin + Emily, a children's furniture company. Unlike most of our guests, David has pivoted away from the food indus…
00:43:12 |
Thu 16 Jan 2020
Episode 108: Woldy Reyes: From Fasion to Fashionable Food
Join cohost Ethan for a conversation with Chef Woldy Reyes, founder of catering company Woldy Kusina. Woldy came to New York City for a career in fashion, starting in the editorial departments of Nyl…
00:52:25 |
Thu 19 Dec 2019
Episode 107: Hannah Wong: From Academic Writing to Regional Vietnamese Cooking
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Chef Hannah Wong of Van Da, a modern Vietnamese restaurant in NYC's East Village. Before beginning her culinary career, Hannah was a Fulbright s…
00:54:53 |
Thu 12 Dec 2019
Episode 106: Janet McCracken & Joseph Hernandez: Adapting to Changing Media Landscapes
Join cohost Vallery for a conversation with Janet McCracken and Joseph Hernandez. We discuss how to balance our time and energy as freelancers, while still working on larger projects that are importa…
00:53:34 |
Mon 09 Dec 2019
Episode 105: Benjamina Ebuehi: From Education to the Great British Baking Show
Join cohosts Vallery & Ethan for a conversation with Benjamina Ebuehi, Quarterfinalist of the Great British Baking Show and author of the new cookbook The New Way to Cake. We discuss Benjamina's prev…
00:55:43 |
Thu 21 Nov 2019
Episode 104: Denise Woodard: From Corporate to Startup Food
Join cohosts Vallery & Ethan for a conversation with Denise Woodard, founder of Partake Foods. Denise had a career with huge corporate food companies but when her young daughter developed serious foo…
00:42:35 |
Thu 14 Nov 2019
Episode 103: Majed Ali & Rachel Gurjar: Alternative Paths to Food Media
Join co-hosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation about alternative paths to food media. Our guests this week are Majed Ali: law school graduate, amateur baker and winner of the 2018 Saveur Blog of …
00:58:07 |
Thu 07 Nov 2019
Episode 102: Rochelle Oliver & Klancy Miller: Building Careers in Food Media
Join cohosts Vallery and Ethan for a conversation with Klancy Miller and Rochelle Oliver. Klancy is a pastry chef and cookbook author, and her book is Cooking Solo: The Fun of Cooking For Yourself. R…
01:10:59 |
Thu 31 Oct 2019
Episode 101: From Wall Street to to Food Writer
Join co-host Vallery Lomas for a special conversation with Aaron Hutcherson, a writer, editor, and recipe developer based in New York City. He obtained a master's degree in finance and worked on Wall…
00:41:23 |
Thu 24 Oct 2019
Episode 100: From Legal Briefs to Recipes: Nisha Vora & Jessie Sheehan
Join co-host Vallery Lomas for a special conversation with former attorneys, Nisha Vora & Jessie Sheehan, as we celebrate our 100th episode! These three women all turned in their pant suits and legal…
00:52:15 |
Thu 17 Oct 2019
Episode 99: Kanchan Koya: From Biologist to Spice Expert
Join cohost Vallery for a conversation with Kanchan Koya. Kanchan has a doctorate in Molecular Biology from Harvard Medical School and training from the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. While stud…
00:42:23 |
Thu 10 Oct 2019
Episode 98: Monica Lozano and Daniel Reza: From Psychology to Reclaiming Mexico's Ancient Traditions of Chocolate
Join cohost Ethan Frisch for a conversation with Monica Lozano and Daniel Reza. They're partners and the cofounders of La Rifa Chocolateria in Mexico City, working with Mexican cacao farmers to recla…
00:51:49 |
Thu 03 Oct 2019
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