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In a medium bowl, combine the chocolate with the coffee and vanilla and let stand for 2 minutes, then stir until the chocolate is melted.

Valerie Erwin is a master chef of Great Migration culture and cuisine.She is the lively, restless creative who uses her Philadelphia roots as a battery pack to the energy she gets from both the cobblestones and her parents' deep Gullah-Geechee roots.. —Michael Twitty, author of.

So you got friends.Because of that early relationship, I've had an almost 20-year friendship with Glenn.I managed a not-for-profit restaurant in West Philadelphia where there was a lot of donated food.

When I started working there, I brought on a chef who's a friend of mine and there were Quaker grits already there, we used them up.Then I wrote to Glenn and he just said, "OK, just tell us what you want, how much he wants.

We'll send it to you."

He did that for two years.. How did you educate your cafe diners about how special the rice was?.I mean, COVID really reinforced that.

We can all work our butts off, but we need time to reset or else we're just going to burn ourselves out.When you have a good team and they're all doing what they need to do, you don't need to be so stringent and micromanage.

If you need time to go do something, go do it.You have a life outside of Hedley and Bennett.. That's been a really great shift in the culture of our company.