Entrepreneur Turns Family Recipe Into Gourmet Snack Business

By Dane Carlson on June 1, 2012 in Profiles

Faced with an uncertain economy and tepid job prospects for recent grads, Bisera Urdarevik had one response: Nuts.

Peanuts, that is. The Portage 23-year-old took her mother’s recipe – a family staple at holidays — and has parlayed it into her own company, Lush Gourmet Foods, LLC.

“The original flavor was the family recipe,” said Urdarevik. “My mom, she always made it when I was growing up.”

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Business Opportunities Weblog editor and publisher Dane Carlson lives in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, just 15 miles from Yosemite National Park. He accidentally became a professional blogger in 2001. He has added 12,209 posts to the site.