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- Healthy cooking. When Irene Liu was in business school during the pandemic in 2020, her aunt had a baby. She watched her mom care for her aunt by making Taiwanese meals traditionally eaten by women in the postpartum period. The experience gave her the idea for Chiyo, a meal delivery business that brings meals with nutritional values common in traditional Chinese medicine to a wider population of women.
"They would spend all day cooking in the kitchen to make the food the traditional way of an herbalist," Liu remembers. "That means eight hours doing the herbs with the broths over the stove. But when I was thinking about myself and my friends—we don't have the time for that. We might not be living with our family or a nearby support system that can be at your house all day making those for you."
