Free people around the clock1/6/2024 ![]() And it will be what we call “hot filled.” It's probably too technical for your readers, but that is a way of a kill step, ensuring that the product will not have any harmful bacterias it makes it more shelf stable. We know it's going to be in a 13-ounce round, clear plastic container. ![]() What will be the price point of the sauce? DN: We don’t know because we’re only literally, like, 10 days into the R&D trying to figure out how to make it on scale. Shelf-stable, tastes great, stays pink, and is affordable. So it’s the Pink Sauce, but the commercial version of what she was trying to get at. We have one ingredient we’re trying to get rid of, but hopefully it’s dairy-free, gluten-free. They reverse-engineered it with her ingredients and then changed up ingredients so that it would be a cleaner label. What we did was we got her formula, how she made her sauce. ![]() She sent some to the owner of the company. (They did not name which chains or retailers.) The two hope to evolve Pink Sauce into a “household staple.”ĬP: I’ve had a relationship with Dave’s Gourmet for about, six, seven years because I use their sauce: going out to eat tacos, different restaurants that carry Dave’s Gourmet’s Insanity Sauce.ĭave, have you tasted the sauce since you've closed the deal now? DN: I haven't tasted her original sauce. And she is a millennial.”Īccording to Neuman and Chef Pii, although Dave’s Gourmet is only about 10 days into “the R&D,” fast food chains and big-name retailers are already calling every day, lining up to get their hands on the sauce of the moment. “We want to get to the millennials we want to be a hip company,” Neuman told Bon Appétit in an interview. With Pink Sauce, the company hopes Chef Pii’s preexisting following will constitute a new, untapped consumer market. Chef Pii’s initial version of Pink Sauce elicited critique and food safety concerns.ĭave’s Gourmet, founded by Dave Hirschkop, is perhaps best known for its ultra-spicy Dave’s Insanity Sauce, commonly featured on YouTube series Hot Ones. The sauce purveyor and Pink Sauce mastermind Veronica Shaw (also known as Chef Pii) announced their new joint partnership less than a week ago, but Dave’s Gourmet president David Neuman tells Bon Appétit that his team is already working around the clock to concoct a shelf-stable version of the product at the speed of TikTok’s notoriously short attention span. Venkatesan and his six-member team form the core of Postcardsville, that the former started in 2020.Dave’s Gourmet Sauce is throwing all of its eggs into the Pink Sauce basket, putting its other projects on pause to rush the condiment through research and development and onto the commercial market by this fall. “We picked places that had reliable old photos for reference,” says Venkatesan, who is currently based in Kanchipuram. Other buildings featured include Egmore and Central Railway Stations, Chepauk Palace, Egmore Museum, Anna University, and Spencer Plaza. Others feature the towers of Madras High Court towers rising from thick tree cover the Ice House standing on a near-empty road in which a horse-drawn cart trundles by…city artist Meganath Venkatesan has sketched a city of quiet roads as well as one that has been quick to adapt. One of the postcards in the series depicts a bullock cart rolling by the clocktower at Mint Street. “He did so despite his age he was over 80 years old then.“ “Last year on Madras Day, he visited four post offices in the city to create cancellation covers bearing the stamp with the date,” he remembers. “He was a good friend and an inspiration and I hoped to get him to launch these postcards,“ says Venkatesh. Hemachandra, also a philatelist, had turned his house into the Maritime Heritage Museum. They are Venkatesan’s tribute to ‘Lighthouse man’ D Hemachandra Rao, who passed away recently. The postcards will be on display alongside an exhibition of vintage images and postcards titled Serving the Raj - Hired Help in Colonial Madras, curated by Venkatesh Ramakrishnan of Madras Local History Group. Photographer and creative entrepreneur P Venkatesan, who has printed them through his venture, calls the collection Reflections: Madras/Chennai, and plans to release it on Madras Day. There are 15 of them, done mostly in black and white, bearing sketches of iconic buildings from the city with then-and-now renditions. Something old, something new, and a whole lot of love for the city of Madras: this is what these postcards are made of.
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