All in Massachusetts History
Today we continue our series on Martha's Vineyard foodways based on oral histories found in the Martha’s Vineyard Museum archive located Edgartown, Massachusetts. I’ve transcribed the interviews and share them as short stories that are helpful for would be culinary entrepreneurs. We turn now to the business of selling food as a retailer and some of the strategies one can use to obtain and keep customers.
So here are the takeaways: Profitable spaces for distributing and selling delicious homemade artisan baked goods and butter have been . . . .
How to start business out of your home. Barber Allen Mederios was born in 1903. She grew up on Martha’s Vineyard on a family farm. To earn additional money she used her culinary skills. Mederios recalls, “I used to make . . .
How to come up with additional sources of revenue and rural settings. Starting today were doing a deep dive into the culture of berry picking and canning interweaving the history of the tradition and stories from other parts of the globe and North America.
