If you asked PCG member Rodney Roden of Saltwater Markets in Gastonia, NC, what he’d one day specialize in, it probably wouldn’t be creatures of the water. It wasn’t until he moved to Charleston, SC that he was truly exposed to seafood. From there, it seems, he has never looked back.
Nationally certified cheese expert, Rachel Klebaur was one of the first members of Piedmont Culinary Guild members – with Orrman’s Cheese Shop an inaugural Business Member. “I joined to support the Guild,” she says. “They do a lot of hard work to bring the community together.”
If you owned and ran one of Charlotte’s most beloved restaurants for nearly three decades, you’d probably exude a good dose of confidence. But there’s depth to the quiet ease with which PCG Member Bonnie Warford sits down at the table in the sun-infused dining room of Carpe Diem.
Not only does Rochelle Baxter’s family ties stretch overseas, but her childhood and school years moved her through Chapel Hill, Durham, and Winston-Salem, before landing in Charlotte. Still, while her culinary inspirations may be far-flung, the food she stocks at Vin Master celebrates the Carolinas’ own variety of flavors.
Prepared meals are nothing new. Meal delivery services aren’t that groundbreaking either. But when Amber Lewis launched modPALEO in 2011, she became an inadvertent food business pioneer. “Nobody gave me a book,” she says of her business model …