In a great collaboration with Finnriver Grainery, Grace Love, owner of Nadine’s Kitchen uses their whole-wheat grains in her Soul Drop Biscuit Mix.

Grace named Nadine’s Kitchen after her mother, the matriarch of her family. “She was home,” says Grace. Her father was the cook, though. He owned a food truck named “Big Mama” in the early 1990s.

Her connection to Port Townsend started with her brother moving here. Then Centrum invited her to teach a class in songwriting. Different music venues in Port Townsend invited her back to perform for events. Now Port Townsend is home.

In keeping with her family’s cooking tradition, Grace offers two pop-up meals a month from a rented kitchen on Park Avenue. She is busy developing more products for her line.

Grace hopes to afford a permanent kitchen space and small restaurant, so she can cook regular meals and serve them at a farmhouse table to encourage fellowship among strangers as they eat together.

“I am proud to be a black woman entrepreneur and be visible in the competitive world of food,” Grace said. And she adds that the support she gets locally is “awesome.”

Look for the full story in The Food Co-op 2021 Spring issue of Around the Table.