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She Quit Corporate Law to Make Hot Sauce — And Never Looked Back

How a burned-out attorney found her calling in a commercial kitchen

Lisa Chen has a framed copy of her law degree hanging in the bathroom of her hot sauce production facility. "Best place for it," she says with a grin that suggests she's told this joke before, and it never stops being true.

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