Many know Spice Bridge as home to our Food Business Incubator where people can come and experience food from around the world all while supporting immigrant and refugee chefs in launching their businesses. But did you know about our Community Meals program? Each week, Spice Bridge chefs cook up hundreds of meals that are then…
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What we achieved in 2021
As challenging as 2021 was, we celebrated many bright spots, such as the one-year anniversary of Spice Bridge, home to our Food Business Incubator program. We marked the occasion by welcoming more than 300 community supporters, partners, and friends to join us in honoring and celebrating the extraordinary program participants. In addition, 2021 also saw…
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Welcoming Leslee Dixon to our Team!
Leslee is deeply curious about the ways nature informs, business, leadership, and systems. Having decades of development experience with incubating and scaling businesses, she believes in a post competitive, open-source collaborative future. Leslee is a Mother, artist, and community builder and has held roles of instructor, chef, entrepreneur, and C- level executive. What she loves…
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We knew it would take a village, and it did, and together we did it!
After many years of thoughtful planning, working with entrepreneurs and partners, and with a groundswell of support from you, our caring community…We did it! We met our capital campaign goal of $850,000! Together, we built Spice Bridge, home to our Food Business Incubator program. This community treasure celebrates the rich food traditions of our vibrant, diverse…
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We Are Hiring!
We are excited to share that we are hiring a Market Relations Manager! The Market Relations Manager is responsible for cultivating partnerships and development of market and sales channels for businesses in our nonprofit Food Business Incubator. This position manages the development and coordination of off-site sales (outside of Spice Bridge) such as farmers markets, pop-ups,…
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Spice Bridge Celebrates Its 1 year Anniversary
Spice Bridge has opened and thrived in a time of uncertainty due to the warm support from our community. We greatly appreciate your dedication and support in helping make this a community space for aspiring women of color, immigrant, and refugee chefs in their quest for building successful food businesses. We are so proud of the chefs…
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Spice Bridge in the News
Spice Bridge chefs have stirred up a lot of interest from news media including Forbes, the Seattle Times, and KIRO 7 News! Check out recent stories.
Stories of Arrival: Student Poetry Performances
Foster High School students Diana Hassan Zada, Mariyam Faizi, and Muna Aidid performed their powerful poems at our recent “Faces of the Community” virtual celebration of art and community. Whether you missed the event, or want to experience the poems one more time, we invite you to watch recordings of the performances.
Pop-ups at Spice Bridge
While Jazze’s is temporarily closed from Feb. 4 through Mar. 5 for family reasons, a great lineup of global food businesses will hold popups at their stall.
Meet Theary Cambodian Foods Owner Theary Ngeth
Theary Ngeth launched Theary Cambodian Foods to provide comfort and connection for her fellow Cambodians, and to preserve and share her cultural food traditions.