Community Kitchen Survey
(photo courtesy of Paper Crane Farm) I’ve recently had the exciting opportunity to partner with an entrepreneur on business planning for a potential small-scale shared-use commercial kitchen for Asheville! As a part of this process, I am conducting market...
Winter 2017 Classes and Events
(photo: Sumac and Pine overlooking the French Broad River at Shaman Hill) Happy New Year! I hope your holidays were warm and bright, filled with expansive love to and from your dearest ones. Ours were beautiful, with visits from friends and delicious food and drink...
Autumn Baking, Writing, and Business Planning Classes
Even though it is still early August, there is beginning to be a whiff of Fall in the air! This has been such a rich and benevolent summer, and I don’t want it to end. At the same time, I love this turn of the seasons, and I’m so eager to jump in to the...
On Folly
In March of this year- exactly a month after signing the papers that transferred ownership of Short Street Cakes (the business that was my heart and soul for 10 years) to my dear friend and former employee, Olga Perez- I embarked on a writing retreat on Folly Beach in...About Jodi Rhoden
Jodi Rhoden, LCSW, CAADC is a Philadelphia-based therapist, writer, and organizer. Jodi earned her Master of Social Work degree and Certified Advanced Alcohol and Drug Counselor license in 2022 and her LCSW in 2025. Jodi works as a therapist specializing in attachment, addiction, and trauma healing. Jodi is the founder and former owner of Short Street Cakes in West Asheville, and the author of Cake Ladies: Celebrating a Southern Tradition (Lark Books, 2011).