Take your tastebuds on a trip around the world with this episode of Open House. Reba and Eric invite Kara Martin, program director of Food Innovations Network, to discuss their innovative business incubator program, Spice Bridge.
South King county is home to many new immigrants and refugees searching for employment in a strange and confusing environment. Spice Bridge offers them the opportunity to open their own restaurants, and share their own unique ethnic cuisine with their new host community. Additionally, these entrepreneurs are provided business training, kitchen and kiosk space, and all the ingredients necessary to help make them, and their businesses, a success.
Program participants, Theary Ngeth and Liyu Yirdaw, join in the conversation, sharing delectable bits about their Cambodian and Ethiopian fare, two parts of the 8-part international culinary choir performing at Spice Bridge.
Learn more about this program at foodinnovationnetwork.org, and stop by Tukwila Village for a more intimate encounter: 14200 Tukwila International Blvd. Suite 141, Tukwila, WA 98168.
And no worries, Eric and Reba hit their own real estate and lending notes with a look at the curiously backwards interpretation that the financial press is spinning on what it means for new homes to be “less affordable.”
So slip on your bib and settle in for a four course extravaganza on this Open House with Team Reba.
Gotta love it!