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A Portable Slice of Pie Sarah Warner was an avid home baker. If you follow her Instagram account, @sarahmakesit, it comes as no surprise she is now in the hand-pie-making business. When co-owners Michael Templeman and Johnny Duncan approached her about opening Pie Fight, a pickup-window bakery, during the pandemic offering only hand pies, the ever-optimistic Warner said, "Sure, why not?" How's business? What kept you going over the past year? For us, we grew very slowly; we did not have any grandiose ideas. Because we were just a walk-up window and because our product is fairly simple—we j...

It's never easy to launch a new food business. You need a hip location, stylish furnishings and dinnerware, a well-equipped kitchen, a dynamite menu, a skilled staff. You need money—lots and lots of money—and advertising and influencers on social media. But add a deadly pandemic to the picture, and things can get pretty dicey. Couple the threat of illness with government stay-at-home orders, followed by months of fear and reticence by your customers and team members to return. Then add a lack of money. Or the glimmer of government money that must be applied for and then waited upon. And t...

¨We need a little Christmas. Right this very minute," has never been more true than in 2020. And yes, a little Hanukkah and Kwanzaa would be nice as well. In a year of a surging pandemic, economic uncertainty, protests and political unrest, dashed hopes for travel and socializing and—locally—an earthquake and windstorm for good measure, why wouldn't we be seeking comfort and cheer? This is the year that's given rise to day-drinking in home offices, the "quaran-tini" and Zoom cocktail hours. And, while there's light at the end of the tunnel, we remain stuck in amber for this holiday seaso...