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The Future Of Food Is You: Mexico City Pastry Chef Odette Olavarri
The Future Of Food Is You: Mexico City Pastry Chef Odette Olavarri
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Length:
38 minutes
Released:
Jan 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
The Future Of Food Is You from The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network showcases rising stars in the food world and is hosted by Abena Anim-Somuah, the James Beard Award winner for Emerging Voice in Broadcast Media. For today’s show, we’re sharing the most popular Future Of Food episode from 2023, Abena’s interview with Odette Olavarri, the founder of Odette Cuisine, a bakery & pastry shop in Mexico City. In this special episode recorded in CDMX, the duo talks about how Odette got her start baking in her parents’ garage, her time at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, why she’d like to collaborate with Dominique Crenn, and her thoughts on what’s next for her burgeoning business. Don’t miss Odette’s voicemail to her future self at the end of the episode. Thank you to Kerrygold butter and cheese for supporting The Future Of Food Is You. Hosted by Abena Anim-SomuahProduced by Kerry Diamond and Catherine BakerEdited by Jenna SadhuEditorial Assistant Londyn CrenshawRecorded at Kizaya Media in CDMXRadio Cherry Bombe is a production of The Cherry Bombe Podcast Network. Subscribe to our newsletter and check out past episodes and transcripts here. More on Odette: Instagram, Odette Bakery, menuFollow Abena on Instagram
Released:
Jan 15, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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