Jeff Smith grew up in a family of 10, where cooking was always a big deal. Since he was a kid, he had always wanted to be a cook and owning a restaurant. After learning some basics of cooking from his mother, Smith got into the restaurant business as soon as he was able to [...]
Food enthusiast Jeffrey Webber (a.k.a. Jeff W. on Yelp) got into online restaurant reviewing after trying to find restaurants in the D.C. and always stumbling upon Yelp listings. When finding lesser known places with good food, Webber wanted to shar his experiences with others, so he started reviewing a lot of restaurants on the review [...]
Earlier this week I sat down with Thomas Rhodes, the founder and owner of Lauraville’s Zeke’s Coffee, to talk to him about his experience owning a roastery. As we sat in front of their warehouse location drinking iced coffee, Rhodes talked about how he got started with Zeke’s and how the company got its name. [...]
Ellen Reich started her company Three Stone Steps in 2006 after being frustrated about not being able to find fairly made, attractive and functional accessories from foreign countries. Her passion for social justice prompted her to try to provide these kinds of items to the community while keeping their source in mind. Originally Reich was [...]
This week I unfortunately do not have any actual reporting to document. I have made several contacts and set up tentative appointments to have interviews, but did not conduct any of them since last week when I interviewed Todd Brizzi of Zeke’s Coffee. I made several efforts to make progress, scheduled interviews and meetings, and [...]
Today I sat down with Zeke’s Coffee’s Todd Brizzi, who is the company’s graphic designer and quality control guy. He is very involved in the roasting process from beginning to end, but given both my time constraints and Zeke’s busy day, today I just went over some of the basics with him as the company [...]
This week I interviewed Malkia McLeod via e-mail; she is the Marketing and Media Relations Manager of the Baltimore City Department of Recreation and Parks. I just asked her some basic questions about what the department has been doing lately as well as her opinions about parks and citizen use in general. When I asked [...]
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