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From The White House to Smart Kitchen Startup With Sam Kass

by Michael Wolf
September 21, 2016October 5, 2016Filed under:
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How does one go from being an aspiring baseball player to being the personal chef of the President to working in the smart kitchen space? That’s something only Sam Kass could tell us.

We talk to Sam about:
– how he became a chef
-how he started working for the Obama family
–planting the first functional vegetable garden at the White House in almost a century and how
-how he became interested in foodtech
-what he sees for the future of Innit and the connected kitchen

You can find out more about Sam and Innit at www.innit.com


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