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Jena Derman

Oct 7, 2026

4:33
Uh, and then you were already sort of, you were saying, dabbling in the gelatin arts.
4:39
Yeah.
4:40
So, you know, with my pastry background, like, you're always kind of cooking on something.
4:44
And I had, um, yeah, started kind of playing around with, like, jelly as a medium and was doing, like, some weddings and parties and gallery openings and special events and stuff.
4:54
Um, Food & Wine did, like, a two d- a two-page spread-

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12:14
[laughs]
12:14
We, this company, we're so happy that it's like our whole lives and like it wasn't- Like we knew that we were gonna continue to collaborate, but we weren't like, "Oh, we're gonna like, um, queer Jell-O.
12:26
We're gonna figure out, you know, like elevate it.
15:18
Jenna used to make these large format creations Do you want to talk about those?
15:24
Sure.
15:24
Yeah.
15:25
I, for a while was making like jellies for weddings.
15:29
Like I did some stacked multi-tier jellies and stuff.
15:33
Yeah.
15:34
Like using some molds, bending a knee to the, to like the history and the tradition of the art.

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22:55
Yeah, and this might be a very hard question to answer, but what do you believe it would take to be able to get to what you are currently serving? Yeah, I think that we imagine that we would have to do like
5:29
Mm-hmm
5:29
... you know, experimenting.
5:30
And, um, I had started working, like, with jelly and was getting pretty far, but, um, basically com- came up to a, a roadblock and reached out to Jack for some help with, um, how to, how to make them taste better.
5:45
Um, specifically, like, what I was working on, like, you really, clarity is n- like, the number one thing.
5:51
Um, so yeah, so Jack was, like, a no-brainer call.
5:54
Uh, like, let's, let's clarify some juice.
5:56
Let's, like, see how flavorful these can be.

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13:34
Mm

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