Cooking Video: Celebrating Winter Squash with Linda Esposito and Henry Hsu

Celebrating Winter Squash with Linda and Henry

Linda Esposito

Linda Tay Esposito Linda Esposito is a food business consultant with a focus on building equitable food systems through the intersectional lens of food, sustainability and equity. Most recently she led the development of La Cocina Municipal Marketplace, an innovative model of conscious, community-led development, offering economic opportunity for low income, women entrepreneurs, while creating jobs and delicious, affordable food for the community. Her past experience includes growing Hodo Foods from an artisanal producer to nationwide distribution, as well as a long career in product development and marketing in consumer technology, banking and CPG.

Linda also teaches Asian culinary classes at 18 Reasons and Milk Street Kitchen. Linda serves on the Advisory Board of the Good Food Foundation. She lives in San Francisco and plants hard-to-find Asian herbs in her community garden at Fort Mason, where she also serves on the board.

Linda has graciously taken on the lead and designed our CSA education classes around our harvests exclusively for our farm’s CSA Members.

Henry Hsu

A child of Taiwanese immigrants who settled in Houston, Texas in the ’70s, Henry currently works at Hodo Foods in Oakland though he has worn many hats. While living in Ecuador he found himself in a new place with a scarcity of good Asian food and eventually ran a dumpling business, before returning to the US to pursue his passion of food and cooking professionally. Read on to learn more about Henry’s fascinating story. (IG: @oramasamadumplings).