For some, meditation often leads to answers and when Executive Chef Steve Amaral meditated he saw: chocolate! Steve (a James Beard award nominated Chef and graduate of Johnson & Wales) and Ann ...
Where does one find the inspiration to craft Long Island’s coolest coffee? For Founder, Christopher Vetter, it was by serving as frontman for a touring punk/harcore band! While on tour, Chris (a na...

When Alex and Evan Spiegel met at Stony Brook in 2001 their fate was sealed as college sweethearts. But it wasn’t until Cornell grad school when the husband/wife team stumbled upon letterpress. Whi...

What do you do when you want to work with your spouse and have a love for brewing, food and travel? Start a spice company of course! Alicia Valeo and Kevin Breslawski are born and bred Long Islande...

Neither recession nor cancer can hold Founder Merilyn Konnerth back. A determined female entrepreneur, Merilyn has the fighting spirit to match the will. When the 2008 recession shut the doors on h...
"I want customers who visit the area to be able to take a piece of the Hamptons home with them," says Brittany. "Or like myself who has lived here my whole life, I want a candle that smells like ho...
