We sit down with Martita Mestéy, founder of FarmdOut and a food systems innovator working at the crossroads of agriculture, technology, grocery access, and community.

Raised with the legacy of her family’s grocery store and a father whose mission was to “feed my people,” Martita brings purpose to every part of her work, from mapping farms and helping growers get discovered to tackling food deserts and building a more transparent food system.

We get into her Puerto Rican agricultural roots, why food access is a dignity issue, whether food deserts happen by accident or by design, how technology can help farmers without extracting from them, and what the grocery shelf would confess if it could tell the truth.

✅ Origin story and her father’s grocery store
✅ Food access as dignity and civil rights
✅ Food deserts: accident or design?
✅ Tech that supports farmers
✅ What the grocery shelf reveals about America

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Tommy McNeal — entrepreneur, executive coach, and the business mind behind McNeal Management and Flame Mobile Kitchen — joins Taste Music Hear Food to talk about leaving corporate leadership for community-centered ownership, growing a mobile food and catering brand through COVID disruption, and the cold truths of scaling with fair wages and high food costs. A conversation about faith, brotherhood, customer experience, and why legacy has to include ownership, mentorship, and opportunity.

Taste Music Hear Food explores how food, music, and culture shape who we become.

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We sit down with my buddy Chef Joe Sasto: Top Chef finalist, Tournament of Champions competitor, author of Breaking the Rules, and creator of Tantos, the original puffed pasta chip.

Joe shares his journey from Michelin-level kitchens to national food TV. He talks about the pressure of competition, and about the difference between cooking for judges and cooking for real people. He also explains how pasta became his personal creative language. The conversation goes well beyond pasta, into growth, identity, discipline, internet food culture, CPG's, and legacy. It's about why breaking the rules only matters once you understand them.

This episode is for chefs, food lovers, Top Chef fans, entrepreneurs, and creatives building something original while honoring where they came from.

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