Kubé

In 2023, we were on a family vacation in Hopkins, Belizé, at the Palmento Grove Cultural, historical, and Culinary Tour ..it was so therapeutic , insightful, and so fun! More people need to go and learn about the history of the African Garifuna people in Belizé.

We are making coconut milk with hot water to squeeze the shreds to get some cream out. This very light coconut milk for the hudut-fish-herb soup and hudut-vegan coconut veggie and herb soup.

We pounded green plantain, like fufu, to dip in soup and eat! It was so fresh and delicious! 🥰✨🤗✨

We also toured their organic and medicinal farm. Amazing and very therapeutic.

In 2023, we were on a family vacation in Hopkins, Belizé, at the Palmento Grove Cultural, historical, and Culinary Tour ..it was so therapeutic , insightful, and so fun! More people need to go and learn about the history of the African Garifuna people in Belizé.

We made Garifuna traditional, hudut soup, coconut-milk-fish soup and coconut-milk vegan herb soup. They were both delicious and so fresh!

We had to add hot water to the coconut shreds to make coconut milk (no cream), by squeezing the oil and cream out of shreds. Coconut milk has a lot of water inside. We also added fresh thyme, oregano, and cilantro , that was from the garden, to the coconut milk. It was sooooo delicious!

We also made pounded green plantain to eat and dip inside of the soup to eat. It was like eating Fufu from Ghana and West Africa. I felt like we were in Ghana! There are some things and food we never lost, within the African Diaspora.

We also toured their organic and medicinal farm. Amazing and very therapeutic.

In 2023, we were on a family vacation in Hopkins, Belizé, at the Palmento Grove Cultural, historical, and Culinary Tour ..it was so therapeutic , insightful, and so fun! More people need to go and learn about the history of the African Garifuna people in Belizé.

We had to add hot water to the coconut shreds here to make coconut milk, with our hands for our light coconut milk-fish and coconut-milk-vegan-herb hudut soup. We had fresh herbs of oregano, thyme, and cilantro from@the garden ….it was so good! We also made pounded green plantain to eat, and dip inside the soup, like West African Fufu! I thought we were in Ghana or West Africa! ✨✨🥰✨✨🙏🏾✨✨

We also toured their organic and medicinal farm. Amazing and very therapeutic.

In 2023, we were on a family vacation in Hopkins, Belizé, at the Palmento Grove Cultural, historical, and Culinary Tour ..it was so therapeutic , insightful, and so fun! More people need to go and learn about the history of the African Garifuna people in Belizé

We were making “hudut” coconut -milk-fish and coconut-milk-vegan -herb soup with pounded green plantain! It was soooo delicious! Lots of hot water was added to make the coconut- milk soup.

Fresh herbs of oregano, thyme, and cilantro were added from the garden!

We also toured their organic and medicinal farm. Amazing and very therapeutic.

In 2023, we were on a family vacation in Hopkins, Belizé, at the Palmento Grove Cultural and Culinary Tour (of the Garifuna people and their organic and medicinal farm).

In honor of Women's History Month, I am sharing this article by Green America on Black Entrepreneurship and how it builds sustainable and inclusive companies. Learn about Margaret Nyamumbo, founder, of Kahawa 1893 Coffee and my business kubé Nice Cream. We discuss how we lead with conscious leadership, growing sustainable and inclusive companies, that we grow on our own terms, and that build social impact. Conscious leadership restores life, health, Joy, dignity, integrity, and equity back to people, animals, and the soil.

'Investing in wholesome ingredients is just as important as investing in people and the community for Nortey. In 2023, Nortey hired formerly incarcerated mothers and survivors of domestic violence to make the ice cream, paying $22 an hour....Social impact looks like giving people economic opportunities for them to thrive,” says Nortey. Such opportunities are incredibly valuable to the more than 1 million people employed by Black-owned small businesses."

Full article link:
https://greenamerica.org/your-money-working-greener-world/supporting-black-entrepreneurship

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In honor of Women's History Month, I am sharing this article by Green America on Black Entrepreneurship and how it builds sustainable and inclusive companies. Learn about Margaret Nyamumbo, founder, of Kahawa 1893 Coffee and my business kubé Nice Cream. We discuss how we lead with conscious leadership, growing sustainable and inclusive companies, that we grow on our own terms, and that build social impact. Conscious leadership restores life, health, Joy, dignity, integrity, and equity back to people, animals, and the soil.

'Investing in wholesome ingredients is just as important as investing in people and the community for Nortey. In 2023, Nortey hired formerly incarcerated mothers and survivors of domestic violence to make the ice cream, paying $22 an hour....Social impact looks like giving people economic opportunities for them to thrive,” says Nortey. Such opportunities are incredibly valuable to the more than 1 million people employed by Black-owned small businesses."

Full article link in bio.

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Our Lemon-Ginger is seriously spicy with fresh-pressed lemons, and spicy organic ginger (the small kind) that lingers on the palate, with a touch of turmeric. The lemon sings well on the palate, while ginger plays the conga and Djembe drums! This is some serious ginger ice cream that's spicy with lemon to cool your heart! 🤩

This Lemon-Ginger with a touch of turmeric will be your extra back-up-fighter-T-Cells this season.

Remember our cold-pressed, full-fat coconut cream I had a ton of minerals and vitamins: Potassium, Phosphorus, Manganese, Selenium, Iron, Copper, Zinc, and Magnesium with Vitamins B2 and B6.
The medium-chain-fatty acids are also anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial!

If you are feeling sick from any cold or virus, you need kubé in your life to heal up strong, with joy and justice! 🥰

kubé exists to restore life, health, JOY, dignity, and equity back to people, animals, and the soil with restorative and regenerative food models! ✨✨✨🤗✨✨✨🙏🏾✨✨🙏🏾

Still available for purchase and curbside pick up today is kubé Sweet Potato Pie 🍠 flavor today. We use real organic sweet potatoes, cinnamon, nutmeg, Madagascar Vanilla Extract, and organic ginger.

This flavor honors the sweet potato and all it’s healing benefits. It is a beautiful warming, fall spice mama earth flavor that is creamy and luscious.

Purchase link in bio.

kubé is offering a curbside pick up holiday discount SALE on our main 6-flavors when you purchase any of our 5oz or 8oz containers.

Please stop by our facility at 3015 Adeline this Tuesday 11/21 and Wednesday, 11/22 from 3pm to 7pm to pick up your order. You can purchase using the link in the bio.

Flavors of 5oz containers: 
- Key Lime
- Salted Caramel with Toasted Pecan
- Madagascar Vanilla Bean - Bittersweet Chocolate with Cacao Nibs
- Goddess EmpowerMINT (mint chip)
- Coffee Latté

Our 8oz flavors are $12
- Lemon-Ginger
- Sweet Potato Pie
- Passion Fruit

kube brings joy, light, truth, love, and vibrancy to any gathering you are preparing for this holiday season.

….Because Rest, Restoration, dance movement, deep breathing, and joy is a divine right to everyone! This Goddess needs rest to continue on the journey of life and business, and therefore I give myself permission to rest! I hope each of you give yourself, too, permission to rest and take care of your body and mental health each day! We live in an abusive and violent economic and political system called Capitalism, which forces people to work at such a fast pace, like a machine. We are not machines! We are human beings with a divine birthright to rest and re-imagine, and to take time out from the noise! We exist to rebuild and transform. I am because we are!

Hopkins, Belize and Placencia, Belizé, 2023!

Looking forward to making more vibrant flavors of kubé nice cream soon!

My joy…my love…my dance, and my kubé process, and my connection to my sisters is intimately tied to my freedom from grind culture, and my freedom to connect to source, God, spirit, ancestors when ever I desire. Mama nature is my first church and sanctuary! 🥰✨✨✨🙏🏾✨✨✨✨

….Because kubé represents the international warrior woman goddess who restores all life, health, justice, order, beauty, and balance back to people, plants, animals, and the soil like Asase Yaa (Ghana), Osun (Nigeria), Durga (India), Ma’at (Kemet), Yemaya (Nigeria, Brazil, Cuba), and so many more!

In order for me to keep making kubé, this goddess must rest and restore, and add more healthy modalities to resist grind culture ….and prepare for what’s coming ahead.

As Tricia Hersey, author of Rest is Resistance says,
“I know that I was not born to simply exhaust myself inside a violent system.”

I know that I have the power and divine feminine energy to utilize my gifts and talents for more community care, Black liberation, human liberation, joy, health, and prosperity.

We are the rising Phoenix in red here, at the Super Natural Woman Retreat by …Ready to declare our next beautiful chapter in life and wombmynfesting and attracting more good to us!

We exist to rebuild and transform! I am because we are ✨✨✨☀️✨✨✨🙏🏾✨✨✨🥰

The coconut tree - the tree of life - is the most healing, delicious, and sexist tree in the world, to me! What most people don’t know is that when I make kubé, I feel very joyful and sexy, because I’m working with fresh cold-pressed coconut cream that dances with me…it’s smooth, divine, creamy …and it is clean (no chemicals). The coconut tree is the tree that nourishes my soul and body literally from the coconut water, coconut fruit, coconut cream, palm leaves.

The coconut trees are absolutely gorgeous, mesmerizing, majestic, and relaxing. They help me to remember that REST is resistance against the grind of Capitalism. As social impact food entrepreneurs, we are excited to build restorative, food justice models and restorative economics, but we also have to remind ourselves to rest, slow down, and stop moving at a machine pace because we can tire and burn out. We are not machines! We are divine human beings who are often sleep deprived and we must get our sleep and rest to be our highest self and to honor our bodies. The system of Capitalism actually teaches us all that our “value in society is connected to our productivity or work,” and this is a toxic cycle we must let go of and end. We must slow down, visit places in nature that calm our nervous system, and tune out the noise! We are already whole, worthy of living, and are beautiful beings.

I encourage everyone to read the book, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto by Tricia Hersey

Tricia Hersey explains, “Resistance in our Rest Is Resistance framework means we rest no matter what the system say. We reimagine rest for ourselves. We craft spaces of physical, spiritual, and psychological rest to disrupt and push back against white supremacy, and capitalism.” This is why I went to the Super Natural Woman Retreat, in Belizé, curated by spiritual healer and health advocate to slow down in nature, and to connect and engage with my sisters in spiritual ceremony in nature so that we could be the medicine for each other again, just like our ancestors did. We also practiced other healing modalities like Chi-Gong. I will be sharing more pictures from this amazing and healing retreat.

We're at the Grand Lake Farmers Market this Saturday from 9am - 2pm in Oakland, CA.

We'll be selling our 5oz containers in the following flavors: Salted Caramel with Toasted Pecans, Key Lime, Madagascar Vanilla Bean, Bittersweet Chocolate with Cacao Nibs, and Coffee Latté.

This week we'll also have two featured flavors that you can purchase.

This week's featured flavors are Passion Fruit and Strawberries n' Cream.

Bring your family and friends to taste the truth!

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What's up beautiful People! Please check out my latest kubé interview on a Podcast called, Plant-Based Nicole, hosted by Nicole R'Shae Holiday. We talk about why I started kubé and where we want to go, and why we practice food justice, restorative economics, and racial and gender equity in our business.

S3, Ep9 Kubé is a NEW genre of the BEST TASTING Vegan, luxurious, organic, coconut ice cream! S3, Ep9 Plant Based with NicoleThank you so much for tuning in today. Make sure you follow Kai Nortey, Owner of Everyone, check out her bio, a...

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, on the and founded by Kai and Nee-Nueh Nortey, is a Black woman-owned business leading the inclusive and full-circle regenerative economy with artisanal, clean, luxurious, and vibrant vegan coconut ice cream that inspires, awakens, and transforms lives.⁠
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We interviewed kubé CEO and cofounder Kai Nortey about her venture and what she loves about Oakland:⁠
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🌿 What are three words that best describe your vegan ice cream? ⁠
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- Vegan, Artisanal, and Luxurious⁠
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🌿 What are three things that you love about working/living in Oakland?⁠
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- I love that Oakland attracts diverse ethnic groups of people from around the world, who are foodies and who also love diverse cultural & social justice experiences.⁠
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🌿 ⁠What are you most proud of since launching kubé Ice Cream? ⁠
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-Since launching kubé we are most proud of the fact that we are still standing after 7-years (since 2016). We are building our team, and have hired a few employees. kubé is now offered in the Hyatt Regency Hotel in San Francisco, in the cafe and for galas. kubé is the preferred vegan ice cream in the Hyatt Regency Hotel freezer to elevate the experience of hotel guests. Many guests in hotels need and want vegan and gluten-free food options, due to their dietary needs and allergies. kubé will also be at the Waterfront Hotel Oakland, in Jack London Square, in the new year of 2023 and will be in other distinguished hotels around the Bay Area soon.⁠
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Find Saturdays at the Grand Lake Farmer's Market and . See our link in bio for more on the Oakland Vegan Trail.
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Our NEW & improved Lemon-Ginger is seriously spicy with fresh-pressed lemons, and spicy organic ginger (the small kind) that lingers on the palate, with a touch of turmeric. The lemon sings well on palate, while ginger plays the conga and Djembe drums! This is some serious ginger ice cream that's spicy with lemon to cool your heart! 🤩

This Lemon-Ginger with a touch of turmeric will be your extra back-up-fighter-T-Cells this season.

Remember our cold-pressed, full-fat coconut cream I had a ton of minerals and vitamins: Postassium, Phosphorus, Manganese, Selenium, iIron, Copper, Zinc, and Magnesium with Vitamins B2 and B6.
The medium-chain-fatty acids are also anti-fungal, anti-viral, and anti-bacterial!

If you are feeling sick from any cold or virus, you need kubé in your life to heal up strong, with joy and justice! 🥰

kubé exists to restore life, health, JOY, dignity, and equity back to people, animals, and the soil with restorative and regenerative food models! ✨✨✨🤗✨✨✨🙏🏾✨✨🙏🏾

Come purchase kubé at the Grand Lake Farmers Market every Saturday from 9am - 2pm in Oakland, CA.

We'll be selling our 5oz containers in the following flavors: Salted Caramel with Toasted Pecans, Key Lime, Madagascar Vanilla Bean, Goddess EmpowerMINT, Bittersweet Chocolate with Cacao Nibs, and Coffee Latté.

kubé Goddess EmpowerMINT is so creamy, refreshing, and BOLDER than most mint out there!

At kubé, we believe in being audacious to create a more restorative economy, food system, and health care system that supports Reproductive Health & Rights to an abortion. The divine feminine energy is needed to restore balance and the power of choice for women or pregnant people, and to repair the harm that has been done to people,
animals, and the soil by extractive / exploitive systems.

We also know that small kubé (5oz) containers provide you with clean and bold flavors that are hard to find. Think peppermint-patty, from back in the day - for a real WAKE-UP EXPERIENCE with Goddess EmpowerMINT! It's time to wake-up
and build the restorative future we need!

Come purchase kubé at the Grand Lake Farmers Market every Saturday from 9am - 2pm in Oakland, CA.

We'll be selling our 5oz containers in the following flavors: Salted Caramel with Toasted Pecans, Key Lime, Madagascar Vanilla Bean, Bittersweet Chocolate with Cacao Nibs, and Coffee Latté.

Each week we'll also have a featured flavor that you can purchase. This week we're featuring a limited amount of Passion Fruit in half pints, and making our debut of Goddess EmpowerMINT in a 5oz container.

Bring your family and friends to taste the truth!

Looking to cool down, try kubé? There are four ways to get kubé, you can go to:

in West Oakland

in San Francisco

Visit us at the Grand Lake Farmers Market in Oakland every Saturday 9am-2pm

Nationwide shipping in the USA (Alaska and Hawaii included).

It's time to re-stock your freezer with five of our flavors: Salted Caramel with Toasted Pecans, Key Lime, Madagascar Vanilla Bean, Bittersweet Chocolate with Cacao Nibs, Coffee Latté.

When you taste kubé; you taste the truth!

Join us at the on Sunday, September 4th | 11 am - 5 pm @ Sports Basement Berkeley.

Tickets to the event are available for purchase through the link in the bio.