The Restoration of the Staple
Our Founder
In a previous life, I didn’t work with dough or peanuts; I worked with cardiac tissue. I spent years earning a PhD, and what I kept coming back to is that cells are built from what you eat. Back then, I could only make the tiniest dent to the largest problems. I love this comic found from Matt (you should see the whole thing), but essentially that is a PhD.
MANU came out of that. We work locally.
We believe real food should be normal, not a luxury. Somewhere along the way, the standard for “food” changed. Fillers and chemicals replaced real ingredients. We stopped asking if it was nutritious, and just asked if it was edible. That is backward. Healthy food shouldn’t be hard to find, and toxic food shouldn’t be the default. We are here to change that. We make real food to restore human dignity, and we’re removing the barriers so everyone can access it.
We wanted to be part of the answer in Miami-Dade, and the hurdle was always access. We kept the ingredients as they are. MANU’s Table Initiative is the next piece of that work. a reality.
We chose peanut butter because we love it, and because it is dense, keeps well and goes with almost anything.