Hi Listeners! So excited to release my FAVORITE episode EVER again this year! The Storied Recipe is a community and it means the world to me that you came together last year to share your Thanksgiving stories with me. Before tuning in this year, remember to fill out the 2022 Storied Recipe Survey (2 minutes and *completely* anonymous) to help me plan for next year! Now without further ado….
Welcome and Happy Thanksgiving!!! This is a very special episode of The Storied Recipe podcast. Rather than diving deep into one story, we’re diving deep into one holiday – telling the story of Thanksgiving from the perspective of almost 30 families. I want to personally thank every single contributor for taking their time to make this episode for us. These vignettes, sometimes funny, often poignant, and so very relatable have cheered my Thanksgiving season and helped me slow down and remember, reflect, and above all choose gratitude this season. In fact, my original plan was to cram this episode in, almost as a bonus or extra episode, but the more I listened to your stories, the more I realized I wanted to lengthen this Thanksgiving season. We begin, surprisingly enough, not with an American, but with a Greek-Australian who reminds us that far, far from being a national holiday belonging to one or two countries, Thanksgiving is an ancient tradition. Practicing gratitude is a tenant, teaching, and calling of every religion, it is, in fact, a need of the human heart.
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Retrospective with Juan Luis Salazr
https://thestoriedrecipe.com/episode-043-la-coop-coffee-owner-juan-salazar/
INTRO: Hello!! I hope you’re enjoying these episodes as much as I am, here in the dog days of summer! Today we’re bringing back another guest at the request of you, the listeners: Juan Luis Salazar. Juan is one of the most amazing, inspiring people I’ve met, ever. Period. Full stop. His full interview, which I released almost exactly a year ago today and titled “I Wanted Something Different” is what I consider a must-listen. It shares the story of a very young, very determined Juan choosing a life of hard work and risk to better not only himself, but his entire community. Juan and the brave farmers who chose to join him did something no one in Guatamela has done before OR since - they started a Guatamelan-owned coffee cooperative where they had control over their own wages. When we talked last year, Juan, now living in DC, had opened a coffee shop just weeks beforehand, right in the middle of the pandemic. The goal was to source the coffee from his family’s farm first, and later, from the farms in the cooperative. If Juan could take this step, he would be removing the middle man *entirely* from between the farm to the consumer and could guarantee farmers, including his own father, the best and fairest wages they had ever received, changing the lives of their entire families. Today we talk about Juan’s progress toward this goal, the way he was threatened by a landlord attempting to illegally break his lease, and the community that has supported Juan and LaCoop Coffee. Just like the original, it’s another must-listen episode, so welcome to Juan and welcome to YOU!
OUTRO: Thanks again to Juan for taking time to chat; you can tell how many demands are on his time, so I deeply appreciate this conversation. As always, check right there in the show notes in your player for all the ways you can connect with Juan and listen right now to his original episode. Next week will be the final episode in this retrospective series. Our final mystery guest is FINALLY holding a book launch party this summer - and this time, it will be for TWO books, since she published the second just last month. Also, this guest GENUINELY believes the best way to keep sugar craving at bay is… to start the day with a delicious, creamy, powdery, sugary treat. It’s a lifestyle she swears by and, really, why should we consider her experience?? Subscribe now to tune into another unedited, fun, exciting conversation - the last in the summer retrospective series - next week!
1) You started this LaCoop Coffee right in the middle of a pandemic, not long before we first spoke last year. In that time, tell us how much LaCoop Coffee has grown. And to be honest, there were so many remarkable parts of your past that we discussed during that interview, we never actually talked about why in the world you thought it was a good idea to start a coffee shop during the pandemic?! What gave you the courage to try then?
2) Tell us about the growth and success of LaCoop in the last year!
3) You had a really threatening situation right around Thanksgiving. Tell us about that. What was the Landlord’s claim? How did you respond? How did the community support you?
4) What has the growth of LaCoop Coffee meant to the cooperative that you began back in Guatemala? What has it meant to YOUR family - your father?
5) You’re not someone to coast. What are your next dreams and goals?
6) OK, remind everyone how they can support LaCoop, even if they aren’t local!
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