The Flava's Called Caribbean Creole - Costa Rican native Marlene Myrie's interest n Caribbean food led her to establish a catering business, a restaurant, and Bag Lady Flava, a take-out lunch business - Brief Article

American Visions, Oct, 1999 by Sonya Kimble-Ellis

Since taking her business online, Myrie has set her sights on new plateaus. She's currently exploring the possibility of marketing Bag Lady Flava sauces and gumbo wholesale and is in the process of closing a deal with one of the major television marketing services. From the look of things, it will soon be a cinch for folks all over the country to get a taste of the Bag Lady's flava.

Sonya Kimble-Ellis is a freelance writer in New Jersey. She is a frequent contributor to Black Enterprise and an editor at FYI, a publication for artists published by the New York Foundation for the Arts.