A Chat With Justin Rashid, founder and president, American Spoon Foods

And as I mentioned, my parents. My father owned those family grocery stores with my uncle, but he loved his customers, suppliers and commerce in general. But even after he sold his stores, visiting farms, farmers’ markets, and peddling fruit was his hobby.

My mother was an Indiana farm girl, a real nature lover, an outdoors person. And at 86 she still keeps her own garden. She’s got 100 acres about 12 miles from here. She still picks wild berries and pickles her own vegetables and I guess I’m clearly most influenced by them.