Cheesemonger/entrepreneur Steve Jones moving to a new location

by heidi on March 8, 2010

Steve Jones, the cheesemonger/entrepreneur who teaches our seminar on retailing artisan cheese, will have new tales to tell at this year’s June seminar — he has closed his four-year-old cheese counter in NW Portland, and plans to open a new, larger location in a different part of town in March. Steve — whose generosity and transparency about his business practices make the seminar uniquely valuable — will be able to relate all the details about his change in business model from the tiny but fabulous counter he ran in a wine shop in a busy business district to being on his own in an upscale residential area. Steve is living the dream of curd nerds everywhere. (April 15 is the deadline for discounted tuition at the seminar, limited to 12 participants.)

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“Turning your Food Passion into a Business” presentation sold out at IACP Conference in Portland, April 2010

by heidi on March 8, 2010

When the International Association of Culinary Professionals meets in Portland, April 21 – 24, Food by Hand Seminars director Heidi Yorkshire and business consultant/instructor Jackie B. Peterson will be presenting “How to Turn Your Food Passion into a Business” — and the session is now sold out. Heidi and Jackie will show participants a road map to a new business, using the seven key questions every creative entrepreneur needs to answer. “Three hours isn’t long enough to build a business plan, but it’s long enough to map out the direction you’re going,” says Jackie, whose new book, Better, Smarter, Richer: Ten Business Principles for Creative Entrepreneurs is now available at her website.

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