The Fried Lentils that Brought a National Food Award Home to Jax
BY LAUREN TITUS / PHOTOGRAPHY BY MICHELLE CALLOWAY
The Lentil House Sharlay Smith Jacksonville , Florida April 2019019
Recipes and culinary skills have frequently been passed down from generation to generation . What is less common is the ability to turn those traditional dishes into an award-winning business . Such was the case for Sharlay Smith , owner of The Lentil House Gourmet Fried Lentils , whose initial product launch is helping to put Northeast Florida on the map of good food nationally .
How did it happen that Smith ' s lentils ended up wmnmg a national competition just 12 months after she began to sell them ? " Never in a million years would I have thought I would be a