Bringing Together Cannabis, Food, and Beverage

Bringing together cannabis, food, and beverage with Rachel Burkons, co-founder of Altered Plates Hospitality. Founded in 2016 by brother-sister team Chef Holden Jagger and Rachel Burkons, Altered Plates is a Los Angeles-based creative culinary collective that is bringing together cannabis, food, beverage, and good old fashioned hospitality. From private pairing dinners and fine dining experiences to CBD mocktails and brand education, Altered Plates is leading California's modern culinary industry into the future through education and high-end custom events and activations. In 2018, Altered Plates consulted on one of the eight winning consumption lounge licenses in the City of West Hollywood. Altered Plates offers expert consulting services regarding onsite consumption in West Hollywood and beyond. After a decade in the wine and spirits industry, Rachel is passionate about hospitality and looks to translate values of high-end hostessing to the cannabis industry and her work with Altered Plates. With connections to the chefs, mixologists and sommelier tastemakers across the country and as the cannabis editor for national publication The Clever Root, and the VP/Associate Publisher for sister publications The Tasting Panel and The SOMM Journal, Rachel is one of the leading voices in exploring the connection between food, drink and lifestyle with cannabis.