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Live Behind The Scenes for Sebastien Sans Gluten x Melanie Persson (The Very Hungry Coeliac): Gluten Free Collaboration Creation
Season 1 Episode 205
A Gluten Free Podcast
Episode 205
My guests on today’s episode are the founder of Sebastien Sans Gluten, Sebastien Syidalza and Gluten Free Cookbook Author and Masterchef Alumni, Melanie Persson. We’ll talk about their collaboration, the experience of working with each other & where they’re both currently focussing their efforts.
We take you live behind the scenes of the recent collaboration between Sebastien Syidalza, owner of Sebastien Sans Gluten and Melanie Persson (The Very Hungry Coeliac) in creating a special Asian and French Inspired Gluten Free Creation. We have a chat and catch up with both former podcast guests Sebastien and Melanie to hear all about this delicious collaboration and how working together has such been an amazing experience.
What we’ll talk about:
* Chatting with Sebastien about what Melanie and he have created
* Creating a special Asian and French Inspired Gluten Free Creation
* How Sebastien and Melanie connected
* Sebastien’s experience of making recipes from Melanie’s first cookbook and connecting at the Sydney Gluten Free Expo
* Sebastien’s approach to collaborating and working together with others in the gluten free community
* Bringing different ideas, ingredients, approaches and experiences into a collaboration for the end product
* Difference between Melanie having coeliac disease and not being able to eat gluten and Sebastien not being coeliac or gluten free and having the ability to eat gluten
* What Sebastien has been up to since we last spoke on the podcast
* The difficulty of running a gluten free business in this current financial landscape
* Sebastien’s perspective of making quality over quantity
* Sebastien being part of the community and so connected with his customers
* Sebastien’s frustration with negative uninformed reviews
* The problem with assumptions on social media and around gluten free food
* Melanie’s experience of meeting Sebastien and collaborating with him
* Melanie’s different approach to working in a home kitchen versus Sebastien’s approach in a commercial kitchen
* Melanie’s experience of engaging with the gluten free community through her latest book release and the recent gluten free expos
Links
Mel & Seb’s collab creation
Melanie Persson’s recent appearance on A Gluten Free Podcast
Sebastien’s appearance on A Gluten Free Podcast
Purchase Gluten Free Feasts by Melanie Persson
Pasta Di Casa Founder Anthony Dionne’s episode
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