From business ideas through finding new customers, every little idea you’ll find here could be that gem leading you to greatness:
On this Blog
- Built to Last: 135 Marzipan Makers and Niederegger
- Celebrate the Power of One – Awesome Gifts from Single-Food Businesses
- Food Entrepreneur Profile: Mast Brothers Chocolate – Slow growth and direct sourcing make for a good company.
- Sunflower Seed Butter: Make or Buy? – An examination of tradeoffs in ingredients sourcing.
- The Art of Winging It In Food and Business – See why you should be excited, not stressed, about launching your food business and where things are going.
- Food Entrepreneur Profile: The Cookie Department – Conversation with an early stage baker making grab-and-go healthy cookies.
- Food Entrepreneur Profile: Nory Locum Turkish Delight – Get inspired by a small batch candy maker with a niche product.
- Food Entrepreneur Profile: From Chinese to Chocolate – A solo woman entrepreneur re-invents herself as a locally-oriented chocolatier, Vice Chocolates.
- Small Giant Zingerman’s Guided by a Vision – A visit to Zingerman’s in Ann Arbor inspires me in every which way.
- Making the Daily Candy Top Cookies List – Thoughts on why they made the list.
- Finding Ingredient Sources for Your Food Business
- Great Ideas from the Street Food Conference
- East Bay Underground Market Goes Outdoors
- Homeroom Cooks Up a Community-Powered Mac & Cheese Restaurant
- From Lisa’s Cookie Shop to Emmy’s Gift Bags
- Creative Candy Ideas from Spain
Other Sites
- Street Food Provides Economic Freedom: Is Success Just a Tweet Away? (8/11, Civileats.com)
- Alternative artisan chocolate business grows through serendipity (12/10, Oaklandlocal.com)
- Sell Yourself: Cooking Up Profits (JeanChatzky.com)
On the Foodzie blog
- Re-inventing Butter Crunch With Brown Rice Syrup – p.o.p. candy (4/2/10) (printable)
- Trends in Informal Events Promoting Artisan Food Producers (2/14/10) (printable)
- DIY Eco Ice Packs Reusable In the Garden (11/5/09)
- Mendocino Sea Salt Story (10/7/09)
- Launching a Homerun Cookie Business (9/8/09)
- Mobile Food Producer / Meyer Lemon Marmalade Alert (7/27/09)
- Starting a Food Business: San Angel Mole’s Secret Sauce (7/23/09)
- Food Trends I Never Thought I’d See (7/7/09)
- Killer Bread, Killer Stories – The unlikely story of Dave’s Killer Bread