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The Perfect Bite

Sarah Perkins

Your fusion of food and entrepreneurship, The Perfect Bite brings you inspiring conversations with chefs, restaurateurs, CPG brand founders, food tech founders, and more in the food and beverage industry, highlighting their experiences and how they've cooked up something new. From emerging brands to established business owners, you'll learn from the best entrepreneurs in food, beverage, hospitality, and agriculture about how they started their businesses, what problems they're solving, the tough times they've overcome, and their best advice for entering these industries or starting your own business. We end each episode with the world's best and hardest question: What is your perfect bite?

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88 эпизодов

  1. Chef Sarah Grueneberg Built Monteverde into a Chicago Italian Icon. Trattoria Lo So Comes Next. 1:00:50
  2. How Dana Cree Turned the Science of Ice Cream Into One of Chicago's Most Creative Food Brands 55:00
  3. How Rye Bunny's Jon Sybert and Jill Tyler Walked Away From a Decade of Success to Build Something Better 1:04:43
  4. How Donnie Madia Changed the Way Chicago Eats 1:02:12
  5. Hill Top Hospitality Rewrites the Rules of Utah's Food Scene 1:02:26
  6. How Dominique Leach Brought Fine Dining to Chicago BBQ 1:06:23
  7. Black Lagoon's Erin Hayes and Kelsey Ramage on Spooky Cocktails 55:34
  8. In the Mood to Bake with Alex George of Lily P Crumbs 58:29
  9. Chef Kevin O'Donnell on Freestyle Italian Cuisine in Newport 1:03:16
  10. Ashok Selvam on Ravenous and the Food Media Renaissance 1:01:26
  11. Jaju Pierogi: 10 Years of Polish American Pride and Dumplings 58:25
  12. Avishar Barua on Agni, Joya's and Honoring Columbus 54:02
  13. Mira's Manny and Gina Ocasio Are Putting Buffalo on the Culinary Map 51:56
  14. Takeaways: The Savory Protein Bar the World Needed | Ash Baxter 1:00:20
  15. Yama Seafood: 50 Years of World Class Seafood | Nobu Yamanashi 48:33
  16. James Beard Winner Chef Sarah Thompson Brings Coastal Mexico to Vegas 54:29
  17. Zingerman's Bob Bennett on Culture and 22 Years of Leadership 45:47
  18. BLiS Gourmet on Great Lakes Caviar, Wild Flavors, and Giving Back 55:41
  19. Rita Sodi and Jody Williams: Iconic Food, Life and an Empire of Community 39:46
  20. Norman Fenton's Cariño is a Love Letter to Mexico, Family, and Purpose 1:03:16
  21. BONUS EPISODE: LIVE! From the 2026 James Beard Awards Red Carpet 1:40:18
  22. Foodbevy: Building a Community of 5,000 CPG Founders 1:00:04
  23. Laura Scherb: Food Photography, Cookbooks and Community 51:56
  24. Adrienne Cheatham: From Top Chef to Top Food Podcaster 1:07:19
  25. From Broken Back to MasterChef: The Chef Out West Story 1:00:23
  26. Vinnie Cimino on Building Cleveland's Best Restaurants 40:20
  27. Diaspora Spice Co.: Spices, Farmers and a New Cookbook 55:58
  28. Caper is Reinventing Food Media | Max Tcheyan 42:58
  29. Killer Brownie on 500% Growth and Living a Little | Chimene Mayne-Ross 54:14
  30. Joe Sasto on Breaking Rules and Building a Pasta + CPG Empire 52:44
  31. Big Dip Energy | Alyse Whitney on Food, TV & Being Yourself 1:01:41
  32. Free of Gluten, Full of Life | Chef Monica Glass 52:14
  33. Emery Whalen Has Nine Restaurants and One Big Mission 54:02
  34. Carbone Fine Food on Becoming America's Fastest Growing Pasta Sauce | Eric Skae 49:06
  35. Chicago Food Rescue on Fighting Hunger Differently | Jake Tepperman 51:09
  36. Three Founders, One Mission: The Merger Changing Latino Food | Tuyyo Foods 54:28
  37. Rachel Mansfield on cadootz!, CPG Investing & Doing It All 48:24
  38. The Hospitality Hyphenate: Lessons in Restaurant Entrepreneurship with Liz Mendez 59:31
  39. Say Hej Hej to Swedish Hot Dogs | How Amelia Eudailey Built the Hej Hej Pop-Up Brand 54:17
  40. How to Build a Career in Ever-Changing Food Media | Chandra Ram’s Playbook for Adaptability 1:00:50
  41. A Better Vegan Butter | How Susannah Schoolman Engineered Plant-Based Ingredients for Professional Kitchens 47:33
  42. From Rock Bottom to Pastry Queen: How Mindy Crosato Built Decadent Creations & A Commissary Kitchen 48:14
  43. MINI BITE—Inside Food Venture Capital: Nate Cooper on Investing in the Next Generation of CPG 30:32
  44. Setting the Table for Success with Kira Corbin 1:01:35
  45. Why Non-Alcoholic Drinks Deserve Complexity with Five Corners’ Benno Nelson 54:31
  46. Designing Experiences That Build Belonging with Maryam Ahmed 1:03:48
  47. Building a Better Frozen Waffle with Emily Groden 48:29
  48. Why AI Can Never Replace the Innate Creativity of Chefs with Paul Liebrandt 51:55
  49. Defining the Queer Food Space with Justin Burke 1:00:34
  50. LIVE! At Katalina’s with The Pancake Ball Queen 55:10