Kitchen Smarts
Kitchen Smarts
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Kitchen Smarts is a fresh new podcast hosted by Hava Volterra, co-founder and CEO of Parsley Software. Each episode features insightful conversations with chefs, food innovators, and culinary thinkers exploring the intersection of art and business in kitchen operations. Whether you're a home cook or a food professional, Kitchen Smarts serves up inspiration, insights, and stories from the heart of the culinary world.
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The podcast explores the intersection of art and business in kitchen operations, focusing on topics such as scaling recipes, food innovation, and sustainable culinary practices, with episodes like Scaling Recipes with a Chemical Engineer highlighting unique perspectives from both chefs and industry experts.
Kitchen Smarts is a fresh new podcast hosted by Hava Volterra, co-founder and CEO of Parsley Software. Each episode features insightful conversations with chefs, food innovators, and culinary thinkers exploring the intersection of art and business in kitchen operations. Whether you’re a home cook or a food professional, Kitchen Smarts serves up inspiration, insights, and stories from the heart of the culinary world.
What do wood-fired pizza, gluten-free flour, and commercial kitchen equipment have in common? Brad Kent. In this episode of Kitchen Smarts, Hava Volterra chats with culinary engineer and pizza visionary Brad Kent—founder of Olio Wood Fired Pizzeria, co-founder of Blaze Pizza, and gluten-free innovator at Original Sunshine.
They explore how Brad went from experimenting in the kitchen as a kid to pioneering one of the most successful fast-casual pizza chains in the U.S. He shares the secret to great dough, why fermentation matters, and what it takes to scale food quality without losing soul. From bean burritos to flour made from wheat (that’s somehow gluten-free?!), this one’s got layers.
Guest: Brad Kent of Original Sunshine Gluten-Free Bagels, founder of Olio Wood Fired Pizzeria, and co-founder of Blaze Pizza.
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Hosted by: Hava Volterra, CEO & co-founder of Parsley Software
Kitchen Smarts is a production of Stereoknife.
Artwork by Dennis Mukai
Music by Brandon McCulloch
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