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News From Specialty Food Resource,  LLC
F O O D  E N T R E P R E N E U R
                        M A G A Z I N E tm                      
Volume 40 - April 2009
 
 
Dear Colleague:

Welcome to the 40th edition of our online magazine. Good news - in May, we will go from once a month to twice a month. This change will allow us to offer more coverage, including production issues, more mini-case studies, and more overall help to the food entrepreneur.

Thank you very much for subscribing. Please use our Discussion Forum and Blog, and let me know what we are missing.

   Pat
Pat
  Pat Hall
  Editor
 
 
 
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MINI-CASE STUDY: Awaken Savor, Inc.
“Think of yourself as an artist, your meat as the palette, and our rubs as the paint which you use to create masterpiece meals for your palate.”
HISTORY - Alicja Lombard and her husband David began Awaken Savor as a kitchen hobby for friends and family. It has grown to a healthy line of 22 spice rubs for beef, lamb, pork, poultry, fish and seasonings for vegetarian dishes and salad dressing mixes in the space of less than a year! 

Featured Website:
 Awaken Savor   

 
FOOD LABEL NEWS:
Question: "Does your firm offer shelf life testing?"
 
 

 
KITCHEN INCUBATORS - Part 2:
In the last article Kathrine Gregory discussed where to locate an incubator. There are several more steps to take before you actually start your production in an incubato.
 
Kathrine offers more guidance here.
 

 
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Chocolate, Yes or No? What is your take?
On the one hand: A declining chocolate market is felt by Mars and Barry Callebaut, reports Food & Drink Europe.com
On the other hand
: Ghana's Cocoa Processing Company (CPC) has more than doubled its cocoa bean processing capacity.

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