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CropCircle Kitchen's Darnell Adams on Incubating Food Entrepreneurs in Jamaica Plain

Bringing a passion for food and systems, CropCircle Kitchen's managing director keeps things running smoothly for the 40 food entrepreneurs sharing the incubator's space.

While home on break from college, Darnell Adams announced one night that she was going to cook dinner. She got out her mother’s old Fannie Farmer Cookbook and started rifling through the freezer and pantry, ultimately producing chicken a la king. Somehow she had internalized how to cook from years of watching her mother in the kitchen. This inaugural dish served as catalyst for a career in the food industry: from a run as a caterer and personal chef to her current job as the managing director for CropCircle Kitchen, an incubator kitchen in Jamaica Plain supporting about 40 entrepreneurs and their culinary ventures.  Through her catering business, Adams was a member of CropCircle Kitchen’s predecessor—Nuestra Culinary Ventures. In May 2010 …

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