CC: Hey Mom, its your daughter Allison. I just got home from the grocery store and I am going to make some breakfast. Just making some eggs, I miss your home cooked meals.

From Terrace Street With Love

CC: Hi I’m Lily Brandimarte, I’m a senior here at Saint Joseph’s University and I’m majoring in Food Marketing Co-op. So basically 3 semesters out of the 5 years you co-op at a different company. My sophomore year I cooped at Dietz and Watson which is a meat and cheese company here in Philadelphia, when you first start working there they bring you through the production, distribution and the sales all throughout the company. The first week you work throughout the production to see how the meat is made then the distribution and see how it is sent out.  This is my interview with my good friend and roommate Lily Brandimarte who is a Food Marketing coop major here at SJU and she is from Moorestown, NJ.  So while I was at Dietz and Watson it was their 80th year anniversary and the way that they celebrated was by opening a pop up shop on 5th and south in South Philly and it was such a great experience. I got to help them with inventory, I picked out clothing that was displayed in the store. I also helped customers with anything they wanted to get. I also helped bring products to the pop up shop like packaged meats and cheeses that can sit out. So that was very fun and a great experience. I loved working at Dietz and Watson.  As a food marketing major at SJU, Lily also took a Food Chemistry class and would always come back with new information about food and bettering our bodies.  Being a FMK major, I was always nervous to take a science class because science was my weakness but I had to take Food Chemistry and it was probably one of my favorite classes here at SJU. I learned a lot of information about different foods you should eat, when you should eat them and what you shouldn't eat. It was so interesting and it was actually during the beginning of the COVID pandemic.

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