They want their sauce in every kitchen in the Bay Area.
powerful enough to compel someone to drop everything and dedicate their life to it, it’d have to be toum.couple were both working in tech, until a life-changing event inspired them to quit their jobs and start a business together selling Lebanese garlic sauce., you’ll understand why people obsess over it. It may ruin your breath for hours afterward, but the potent concoction is so delicious that all other condiments pale in comparison.
She remembers gravitating toward the kitchen when her teta would visit, watching her painstakingly mash the toum by hand with a mortar and pestle. It wasn’t long before her mother taught her how to make it, too.Courtesy of Anne's Toum“I was moonlighting as a rodeo clown, and I broke my ankle,” Drapeau said. “I had met Katia at a wedding, and she brought me homemade Lebanese food when I was bedridden. And she had the toum, and I tasted it, and I was like, ‘Oh my God.
They both quit their tech jobs, turning all their energy toward the toum company forged in Berberi’s mother’s memory. Owners Katia Berberi displays some of their toum sauce at Anne's Toum stand at the Grand Lake farmer's market in Oakland, Calif. on Aug. 20, 2022. Their toum, a lebanese garlic sauce, is based on Katia's mother's family recipe.Anne's Toum bicycle stand at the Grand Lake farmer's market in Oakland, Calif. on Aug. 20, 2022. Their toum, a lebanese garlic sauce, is based on Katia's mother's family recipe.
“My mom started modernizing it,” Berberi said. “So she would add oregano to it and make garlic bread, and that was like this big thing. … In Lebanon, you don’t find stuff in the toum. So when we were starting the business, talking about the business and creating flavors, for me, it was just natural to add different flavors to the toum because that’s what I had grown up with my mom doing to some extent.
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