Makers

It all began with a candied orange peel. Husband and wife team, Corey and Sara Meyer, now make all sorts of strange and wonderfully curious confections out of their state of the art manufacturing facility in Plainview. But it all started with that orange rind Sara candied for her husband. Corey’s overjoyed reaction to the peel immediately plunged Sara into a candying kick. Soon she candied pretty much everything that was edible, including some leftover jalapeños. Corey thought she was crazy, Sara’s co-workers, however, did not. After bringing chocolate covered candied jalapeños into her office, orders were immediately placed. So,...

We have the best damn jerky around, people need to know that," says Vinny Macchirole.   . Marina owners for 28 years, Vinny (a licensed sea captain) and his wife Carolyn, mostly kept their high protein snack to themselves until 2016. "We'd take brisket from the grocery store and make big batches of it at home because it travels well and its tasty," says Vinny. "It had no additives or chemicals like some of the store bought Jerky so it was a great snack for the kids to take to their track meets, or to bring on the boat."  ....

Meet Sofia and John Witzenbocker, the husband-wife team behind Sag Harbor Honey. "We put honey on everything. If a recipe calls for sugar I substitute it with honey. I don't think we even have sugar in the house," says Sofia. "For example, we're potty training our son right now and his reward is a spoonful of honey (haha)." . Over 6 years ago there wasn't a Sag Harbor Honey - just some poorly sprouted fruit trees at John's parents house in Sag Harbor. In searching for a fix they spoke with an elderly beekeeper (a family friend) as he comically ate...

"I've always had a passion for creating things," says Michele DiBartolo. "Usually it was more interior design or refurbishing furniture I'd find at thrift stores - dressers, vanities, chairs - and fixing them up cosmetically." Three years ago, Michele (who manages Del Rio Salon in Blue Point by day and holds a Bachelor's degree in business from Briarcliffe), was restoring an old school desk for a friend, when she googled how to preserve the paper collage she had crafted on the desk's surface. Answer: Epoxy resin. While researching, she discovered that the medium was also used to create art and,...