#MY BIG BUSINESS HOW TO#

#MY BIG BUSINESS HOW TO#

It was my first port of call and they advised me on how to test it and how to can it.' 'North Carolina State University also has a food entrepreneurial website, which helped me tremendously. 'I'm lucky enough to be in North Carolina where we have a fantastic Department of Agriculture,' Swan says. In 2010, she worked with her father to perfect the 'bit of this and bit of that' recipe, then threw herself into researching food businesses by poring over books and websites. Swan is the fourth generation to prepare spicy pepper relish in the family kitchen on Cottage Lane in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. 'It's something we always had on the table but when my husband really liked it, and he was outside the family, we thought we needed to investigate this.' it was my great-grandmother's,' Swan says. Armed with a degree in art history and her great-grandmother's recipe, she forged ahead anyway and created Cottage Lane Kitchen. Samantha Swan didn't know anything about running a business when she decided to start selling spicy pepper relishes. There's also a good chance that more times than not someone has taken a bite and uttered, 'This is so good, we should sell this.' That's exactly what Samantha Swan and Sassy Henry did: turned family recipes into a successful business. What was your favorite dish growing up? Chances are, you and your family have a favorite recipe that's been passed down over the years.

My big business