
A Better Vegan Butter | How Susannah Schoolman Engineered Plant-Based Ingredients for Professional Kitchens
What does it actually take to build a better ingredient for professional kitchens?
In this episode of The Perfect Bite, host Sarah Perkins sits down with Susannah Schoolman, founder of Tourlami, to unpack how deep culinary experience can become a real competitive advantage in entrepreneurship.
Susannah shares how her background as a classically trained pastry chef revealed a major gap in the plant-based market: vegan butters that simply didn’t work in professional baking and kitchen environments. Instead of settling for “good enough,” she spent years testing, iterating, and engineering two…
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