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ARTISAN TEA: Michelle Cheng, owner and founder of Leafy Green, a tea company based out of Hope & Main in Warren, prioritizes single-origin tea leaves purchased directly from farmers to elevate her tea to “artisan status.” / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Tea offers fresh taste of China

Growing up in China, ­Michelle Cheng and her family drank tea daily. At age 13, Cheng and her family immigrated to the United States,...
FULLY PREPARED: Natasha Daniels, sous chef for PVD Dinner Share, a meal-prep service that provides fully cooked and prepared meals each week, in the kitchen preparing jerk chicken with braised greens on coconut rice for customer pickups. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

When you don’t want to cook

After a long workday, a home-cooked dinner made of fresh, local ingredients sounds fantastic. But who has the energy to pull it together? Craig Jones...
HAVING FUN: James “Big Jim” Annis, right, and James “Jimmy” Annis, left, with Robert James Annis, at East Bay Custom Cycles in Bristol, a motorcycle customize and repair shop, which Big Jim and Jimmy opened together last May. / PBN PHOTO/KATE WHITNEY LUCEY

Getting motors runnin’

After serving in the Coast Guard and working 20 years as a policeman, James “Big Jim” Annis decided to retire and open a motorcycle...
SHARED WORKSPACE: Avi Mallinger, right, general manager of Pilotworks Providence, a shared commercial kitchen space available for use by local small food-production companies, discusses how to use the dough sheeter with Andrew Kupke, chef and co-owner of Brown Paper Bounty. / PBN PHOTO/MICHAEL SALERNO

Kitchen feeds Rhode Island eateries

Pilotworks Providence is a shared commercial kitchen providing production time and space to small food businesses. The facility, which opened at 55 Cromwell St. last...
SOAP SAVVY: Elizabeth Sylvia started Rhode Island Natural Soap in November, converting a spare bedroom in her Lincoln home into a “soap lab,” and sells her product through a website, as well as at shows and the Providence Flea. / COURTESY ELIZABETH SYLVIA

Pastime now fills ‘soap lab’

The journey from a pastime to a home-based business has been swift for Rhode Island Natural Soap Co. Entrepreneur Elizabeth Sylvia started her business in...
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