Jami Curl

Founder of QUIN – a small batch, handmade candy company headquartered in Portland, Oregon

Biography

Jami Curl loves working with sugar, exploring the magic of candy and telling the perfect story. In addition to creating QUIN’s recipes, Jami leads a team of candy makers, customer service staff and wholesale specialists to provide retail partners across the country with a variety of QUIN specialties. Recently named one of Fast Company magazine’s 100 most creative people in food, Jami’s work has been featured in Bon Appetit, Food + Wine, Gourmet, Good Housekeeping, Real Simple, Martha Stewart, Martha Stewart Weddings, Sunset, O Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and more. Throughout her career she has appeared on stage and screen sharing with others her tips and tricks for operating a small business, creating a loyal brand following, whipping up the perfect dessert and capturing the essence of fresh fruit in candy. Jami is working on her first book, Candy is Magic, to be published in the spring of 2017 with Ten Speed Press. She lives in SW Portland with her son, Theo (8).

The Greens Cookbook

Deborah Madison

Laurel's Kitchen

Laurel Robertson

The Pie and Pastry Bible

Rose Levy Beranbaum

In the Sweet Kitchen

Regan Daley

Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin

Words about food and cooking have never been more beautiful - Laurie Colwin's writing is pure magic.

Twelve Recipes

Cal Peternell

The Good Cook (series)

Time-Life Books , Richard Olney , Carol Cutler and Jeremiah Tower

Yes, an entire collection of books, but I really do not know anyone who loves food who did not read these like novels

The Barefoot Contessa Cookbook

Ina Garten

Before Food Network - Ina at her best. This food in this book is so much more than food - it captures a moment and a feeling that I feel nostalgic for even though I really only experienced the moment and the feeling through Ina.

Vegetables Every Day

Jack Bishop

The ideal companion for the CSA box - Bishop has great ideas for every vegetable, and the way this book is organized is genius.

In Pursuit of Flavor

Edna Lewis

The sorbet section alone is perfection.

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What's playing in Jami's kitchen?

Bruce Springsteen (before the Boss became the Boss) Radiohead Bach