Recipe for Success Episodes
Kids and Cooking
First, we’ll meet two successful women who left behind their lucrative careers to start a coffee bar for moms. Next, we’ll meet two childhood best friends who were unhappy in their jobs and decided to set up their own cooking school.
That Takes the Cake
We’ll meet a Harvard graduate who left her job as a marketing executive to follow her dream and make pound cake. We’ll also visit a stay-at-home dad who makes one-of-a-kind wedding cakes out of his home kitchen and eventually wants to open his own shop.
Partners
We’ll meet a couple that left the world of design to buy a failing creamery in the hopes of turning it around. We’ll also meet a couple that was dissatisfied with their corporate lives so they bought a lobster restaurant in Maine.
Family Secrets
We’ll meet two best friends who teamed up to make traditional Southern style cakes using a recipe that’s been passed down through the generations. We’ll also meet a flight attendant who turned her mother’s chewy toffee into a profitable business.
Country Food
We'll meet a woman who has gone from housewife to millionaire. Next, we'll meet a woman who, after working as a personal assistant to high-profile clients, who started her own business preparing meals for busy clients in their own homes.
Food Friends
Today we’ll meet two friends who started a whole new kind of business. The outcome became Gourmet Gathings. Next, meet a couple who started experimenting in their kitchen and within months had cooked up a variety of all-natural dog treats.
At the Market
We’ll meet Andrea DiReda who was a registered nurse, who then took a job selling her homemade pies with a local farm stand. Andrea decided this was her new business and started selling at the local farmers market under the name "Ever So Humble Pie."
Retro Bakery
After spending several years working in the corporate world, two friends decide they wanted to work for themselves. After pooling their savings and taking on a third partner, Baked was born. Opening in Brooklyn, this dessert cafe specializes in brownies
All in the Family
Today, we’ll meet a woman who describes her yam potato pie as "yam good." After her father became ill, she decided to fulfill his dream of taking his pies to the retail market. Next, we’ll meet a family of women who run a successful catering company.
Coffee Shop - NYC
In this episode, we will take the full half hour going from a coffee bar in Manhattan, to the University of Coffee in Northern Italy and back again to New York.
Sherri Lee - Philly
A strong willed public relations woman decides to open her own café despite warnings from her friends. She needs her mother’s money to do it. She asks for business advice from an expert, but doesn’t follow it. The venture puts a dream and a friendship in jeapordy. Will this café ever open its doors?
Blissful Indulgences - NYC
A beauty queen and fashion model who prefers life in the kitchen to life on the runway? Meet a young model who’s dream is to have her own specialized custom catering company, but when she makes the jump and launches "Blissful Indulgences" she begins to wonder is he might be biting off more than she can chew
Jubilee - Philly
Good word of mouth, national publicity and a huge wholesale order and things most businesses strive for, and a small Philadelphia chocolate company had them all – but did it turn out to be too much of a good thing?
