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The staff at the Ekus Group in the reference library that Lisa Ekus has built over the past 40 years.
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Women in Business
The Right Ingredients
For 40 Years, the Ekus Group Has Been Supporting and Connecting Culinary Professionals
The Hatfield-based Ekus Group describes itself as a ‘full-service culinary agency.’ This is a unique niche obviously, one that has been successfully cultivated over the past 40 years, during which time the name Ekus, like the names of many of the authors the company represents, has become known across the country and around the world. Summing up the broad range of services, partners Lisa and Sally Ekus (mother and daughter) say they “bring chefs out from behind the stove.”
By George O’Brien
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f one wanted to gain a full appreciation for how the company started by Lisa Ekus back in 1982 has grown, evolved, and emerged over the past 40 years, maybe the place to start is in what she calls
her reference library.
It has become the centerpiece — although there are sev-
eral of those — of the 250-year-old renovated farmhouse in Hatfield she calls home. She started with a small collec- tion gathered in high school and college, and has grown it to 7,000 volumes, with more added seemingly every week; there’s a pile of books outside her office for reading and