Glidden is the vice president and co-founder of Beanfields snacks, a family owned chip company which promotes non-genetically modified food and an odd recipe choice for making tortilla chips: the bean.
“Not using corn to make tortilla chips is kind of like saying, ‘Let’s develop a potato chip without potatoes,’” Glidden said.
An interest in cooking and food production began early for Glidden when he was a child growing up in Fairbanks, he said.
Glidden’s family moved to Fairbanks in the 1950s when his father was stationed at Ladd Air Force Base, which is now Fort Wainwright. He remembers shopping in the military commissary with his mother and being interested in all the different food products on the shelves.
“I loved going shopping with my mom,” he said. “Those are some of my earliest memories,douuo.com/burberry.html.”
His first job in high school was as a bagger and stocker for the Northland Hub, an old Fairbanks grocery store. After moving from Fairbanks in his 20s, Glidden began his career in natural foods development with his brother, Reed, to start Choice Sales and Marketing, a company that represented natural food producers. He also worked for Galaxy Nutritional Foods,louis vuitton wallets, Inc,air jordon. in Florida where he was the director of natural sales before rejoining his brother and sister-in-law, Liza Braude-Glidden, to create Beanfields,celine bags online.
“Liza was the first one to start experimenting with using beans to make chips in the family oven,” Glidden said.
Glidden and his brother always wanted to develop their own brand and started noticing that a lot of chip companies were incorporating ingredients like rice and multigrain instead of just corn.
“We thought,cheap true religion jeans, ‘Well, wow, wouldn’t that be great to develop chips using something like rice and beans?’” Glidden said.
Glidden sees beans as “America’s super food” because they use less ground water to grow, have not been subjected to as much genetic modification as other foods such as corn and soy and are fix nitrogen for more fertile soil.
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Recently, Beanfields expanded its market by selling its bean tortilla chips at Sunshine Heatlth Foods on Trainor Gate Road and at the Fairbanks Community Cooperative Market on Gaffney Road.
“It’s our northernmost outlet for our chips,” Glidden said. “We have our roots there.”
Beanfields chips have been featured on the “Ellen DeGeneres Show” and sold at Dodger Stadium,Prada Outlet, but Glidden said that selling his family’s chips in his hometown is “thrilling.”
“I haven’t forgotten my friends in Fairbanks,” said Glidden, who now lives in California. . “In fact, a lot of them have gone to Sunshine to buy the chips and have sent me photos of them munching on the chips. I just laughed. I thought it was great.”
Leslie Pearson is a freelance writer who lives in Fairbanks. Related articles:

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