

11/04/26
Tom picks up where Part 1 left off. Chris finally tells the story he teased last time: the FLX Foods dinner in Rochester, held at Danny Wegman’s Next Door Bar and Grill, where he needed to make an impression on a room full of influential upstate New … Read more
10/30/26
You know those origin stories that sound a little too clean? This isn’t one of them. In the first episode of Beyond the Dieline’s Founders Edition, Tom Seymour sits down with Chris Kirby, the chef who left the kitchen, grabbed an ice cream scooper, a… Read more
10/21/26
Rao Murukurthy started as a mold maker and bottle designer working for his father in the Chicago area. He spent more than a decade there, then moved into plastics and custom blow molding, where the shop was making a large share of the bottles you wou… Read more
10/13/26
First of all, before we get to the show notes, I wanted to say sorry to my amazing guest Freddie Sheridan! I thought I had published this episode a few months ago and was going through my recordings and saw that, in fact, it hadn’t been aired yet! Yo… Read more
10/08/26
Ree Dolnick did not set out to leave science. She was a cancer researcher who got handed lab bars she would not eat: chalky, too sweet, and a label she could actually read. She had worked her way through school as a sous chef, so she treated the kitc… Read more
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