Category: women

  • March 2, 2023
    Lashawnda Scaccianoce has been passionate about food and feeding people since she was young. In fact, she was only 11…
  • February 17, 2023
    Mina Wilcox comes from a long line of entrepreneurs. Her grandfather was a printmaker, and her parents ran a restaurant in Japan.…
  • February 2, 2023
    Tana Harris had been in the construction industry for nearly 20 years when she started thinking about starting her own…
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    January 11, 2023
    Wanda Blake’s cooking apprenticeship started in her mother’s kitchen. It then continued in the kitchens of great aunts, aunties, grandmas,…
  • December 14, 2022
    Gladys Mondragon is co-owner of Sunshine Organics farm in Watsonville. With the help of Tania Zuniga from Kitchen Table Advisors,…
  • October 26, 2022
    Meet Denise Doss the owner of Niecy’s Delight.  She specializes in production of a pound cake recipe developed by her 103-year-old…
  • August 12, 2022
    Asmara Cafe specializes in traditional brewed Eritrean and Ethiopian coffee and food such as chicken kilwa, foule and sambusas. Owner…
  • June 27, 2022
    As with many of us, Rafaela has always enjoyed cooking, cooking with her mother and grandmother especially, being a true…
  • June 21, 2022
    Wine Noire LLC., an import, export and wholesale distribution company based in Berkeley, CA. Launched in 2017, The Wine Noire…
  • May 11, 2022
    Ms. Socorro Manzano is the owner of Tacos Manzano, a cozy and proud establishment that started just when the pandemic…