Hi, I'm Rowan.

I came up with VIOLET in Miami in 2023, before culinary school. I wanted to make a specific hot sauce and couldn't find the right ingredients, so I improvised with what I had. It worked better than expected. I started putting it in small bottles and giving them to people who worked in my building. They kept asking for more.

After Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, I came back to the recipe expecting to find the flaws. It held up. That's when I decided to make it real.

The Sauce

VIOLET is pineapple, blueberry, and scotch bonnet, plus red onion, garlic, vinegar, lime, and cilantro. That's the whole list. Vegan, gluten-free, no food coloring. The purple is real: it's the blueberry.

Each bottle is 5 oz and shelf-stable until opened.

The Maker

Made in small batches by Kensington Food Company in Philadelphia, a veteran-owned co-packer that handles every bottle with the same care we put into the recipe.

What's Next

VIOLET is the first release. More flavors are coming, but I'm not in a rush: every sauce has to earn its bottle.

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