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She Left Wall Street for Your Kitchen

Former finance exec Alicia Charolle is cooking up connection—one personalized menu, farmers market tour, and at-home dinner party at a time.

Jack Beckett
Jack Beckett· Staff Writer, Mercury Local LLC
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She Left Wall Street for Your Kitchen

Copper & Thyme founder Alicia Charolle bets big on local produce and small-scale hospitality.

Charolle spent nearly two decades in financial services, a tenure she politely describes as "enough."

Jack Beckett
Jack Beckett

Staff Writer, Mercury Local LLC

Staff writer for Mercury Local covering government, elections, public safety, and development across multiple publications. Beckett has filed more than 600 stories on local policy, crime, zoning, and civic accountability in Connecticut and the Carolinas.

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