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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