Hi!
My name is Jared Christensen and I am very proud to present Ekko Gourmet to you.
I am originally from New Zealand, and had been travelling in many countries working as a chef before my culinary adventure finally brought me to Sweden.
Growing up I had always loved food, ingredients, baking and eating, and even at a young age I remember telling everyone I was going to be a chef. I did many years of culinary training in New Zealand, and then I happily left home for a life of travel, food, music, football and adventure. During my years of travelling I had many jobs in different countries and I learnt a lot as I worked in many different branches of the food industry.
I rented a small restaurant kitchen which I had access to in the evenings and weekends and I bought a small hand held burger press. I prepared ingredients on a Friday night, hand pressed burgers on a Saturday, packed them on the Sunday, and sold them during the week. I could not speak Swedish well, but I learnt how to say “tastes awesome, gluten free and vegan” and I went out enthusiastically to sell them. The shops wanted to test them, and jordnötsbiffar sold well. I did in store demos, and even though my Swedish was very bad, people tasted and were very satisfied. More shops tested them, and sold them, and soon these shops were asking me for more products! Then came Lemon Masala Burger. I hand pressed those out to, and that was a success also…