Archive for the 'Food' Category

WTOL.com:
What’s a tailgate for the big game without buckeyes — Marsha’s homemade buckeyes?
The Perrysburg woman who built a business on the sweet treats is busier than ever and says you can start a successful business, too, if you’re just patient.

Dip, dip, dip. “I’ve been making buckeyes 24 years,” Smith tell us. Many of them for [...]

Seminole Chronicle:
For Prudence Manolov, it’s about the art; it always has been. When she looks at her latest sweet creation standing magnificiently on the table, she has a sense that beauty will always trump bottom line in the artist’s heart.

Manolov’s latest design, a birthday cake for her daughter shaped like three overstuffed pillows stacked on [...]

Terre Haute News:
In a little shop in a quiet corner of the Wabash Valley, the delectable smells of fudge and caramel, mint and espresso, waft through a 100-year-old home where two women are realizing an entrepreneur’s dream.

Brooke Schmidt and her mother, Donna Thompson, co-owners of Brooke’s Candy Co. in Dana, have seen their business triple [...]

azcentral.com:
Two stay-at-home moms turned entrepreneurs are responsible for bringing Peoria’s Park West shopping center its first farmers market.

Shoppers’ growing desire for local and organic produce prompted managers of the retail center, near Northern Avenue and the Loop 101, to coordinate a market there in October.
They enlisted Peoria resident Christa Esquibel and her sister-in-law Emy Porter, [...]

The Salt Lake Tribune:
Folks who take a break from Interstate 215 for a bite at Tammie’s Family Diner might do a double-take when they see their waitresses. There’s a family resemblance.

If they glance into the kitchen and see owner Tammie Newport, it might start to make sense.
Newport, a slender, energetic woman with obvious practice [...]

OregonLive.com:
Sue Socher can’t understand why her daughter, Melissa Haskell, spends hours making homemade chicken or beef stock or canning tomatoes when it would be easier to buy them at the grocery store.

“It sounds like a lot of work to make things homemade, but really it is very simple,” Haskell said. “I enjoy making meals from [...]

Bugle-Observer:
Get your sweet tooth ready, because there’s a new bakery in town, and they’ve got some real goodies.

Sweetie Cakes, a cake and chocolate shop, has been up and running for two weeks, and owner Naomi McLaughlin has been baking up a storm.
“I’ve had a great response,” McLaughlin said.
The military reservist and mother of two does [...]

MontgomeryAdvertiser.com:
Michelle Nix was working in a ministry at Frazer Memorial United Methodist Church when she learned how hard it is for working moms to find the time to prepare and cook a good meal, at home. And then after the meal, there also is the cleanup.

That experience, combined with her familiarity with a Super Suppers [...]

My SA Health:
There’s a growing national movement among parents of autistic children.
Many believe that feeding their children a special diet can improve their behavior and social problems. A San Antonio mother is using her home-based business to help others follow this path.

After-school reunions are a lot more interactive than they used to be at the [...]

KHNL NBC 8:
It’s a tough time for the nation’s economy. Economists say the dollar is weak, costs are rising, and in general, people are buying less. With all that bad news, who would want to start a business?

It seems counterintuitive to want to open doors to a new business, at a time when customers are [...]