Chef Erich Chieca is a 3-term Research Chefs Association board member whose active volunteerism has been just one of the superpowers that has helped Chef create a enriched career through friends and mentors who gave him opportunities. Reflective and thoughtful, Chef Erich emphasized that no matter the product we make nor the role we have,…

Sadler’s Smokehouse Director of Culinary Sales Chef Erich Chieca is an experienced chef who was invited to the research chef world through a friend at Gordon Food Service. As a research chef and sales manager, Chef has seen diverse product development teams. In this PeasOnMoss podcast preview. I ask Chef how he describes the differentiation…

James Beard awarded Chef Kenji Lopez-Alt is recognized as a solid resource in the food writing and professional world as a writer who takes the time to gather the facts and produce well-researched, thoughtful articles, tested and true recipes, and leadership by example. From his work on Serious Eats, a food website sharing articles, recipes,…

Ashley Koff is a registered dietitian nutritionist and marketing expert who has built a reputation on looking at the food industry from a unique perspective. What started as a service to review products for brands through the eyes of nutrition professional, the program Ashley Koff Approved seeks to provide an assessment of food products that…

Registered dietitian nutritionist Ashley Koff is a recognizable nutrition and marketing expert with the Ashley Koff Approved 3rd party nutrition evaluation service as well as collaborations among healthcare practitioners and food brands. While not a product developer herself, Koff has some insights to share with R&D teams and food brands who seek to make nutritional…

Catalina Crunch founder Krishna Kaliannan is our guest for the PeasOnMoss podcast this week. Krishna Kaliannan is the Founder and CEO of Catalina Crunch, a Keto-Friendly Cereal in Delicious Dark Chocolate and Cinnamon Toast. Krishna started Catalina Crunch because he believed it shouldn’t be so darn hard to eat Keto and have fun doing it!…

Krishna Kaliannan’s keto cereal brand Catalina Crunch is right at the threshold of breaking out big in the retail world after success in e-commerce and local brands. It would be easy to predict the meteoric rise and risk of failure that we see in other food startup brands. Kaliannan recognizes that these are pitfalls that…