Introducing the Newest Members of La Cocina’s Family

“Flavor is a way to own your heritage,” says Olive Lowe, and she sure owns it! New La Cocina participant and founder of a Biscotti Company whose name remains to be picked makes sweet and savory biscotti based on a prized family recipe that her grandmother and great aunt first concocted in Italy.Her wide repertoire includes classics such as chocolate dipped almond toffee, and explores novel savory varieties like prosciutto asiago, black pepper walnut, and cornmeal cranberry with rosemary. “I like to think there’s always a taste to a place,” says Olive, whose twists on her grandmother’s recipes incorporate Southern tastes from her own childhood growing up in Alabama, Virginia, and Texas.Olive plans to build on her professional background in social work to develop a skills-training and workforce development program at her company that employs women rejoining the workforce. “I feel like this is a way to develop and build communities, to build a business that offers something to the community while making a profit to provide support and services.”When she’s not devising tasty new recipes, you might find her plucking her banjo with friends or knitting up a storm to keep her warm in San Francisco!