Carol “Red” Smith, left, and Jacke Randall (far right), co-owners of Red’s Smokehouse prep in the incubator kitchen for a catering job. Red’s also sells smoked pork, chicken and portabella mushroom sandwiches in the Allen Street Farmers Market Food Court.
Check out this interview about an innovation kitchen that cooks up businesses.
Joan Nelson is the executive director at the Allen Neighborhood Center. The Lansing, Michigan, center’s incubator kitchen program gives local farmers and food entrepreneurs a place to grow a business.
Nelson has a good anecdote about how one vendor’s coffee beans became another vendor’s stout which ended up as an ingredient in yet another vendor’s bread.
The story is produced by The Food Fix, another publication of Michigan State University’s Knight Center for Environmental Journalism which also publishes Great Lakes Echo.