{"id":407697,"date":"2017-10-07T13:44:56","date_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:44:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=407697"},"modified":"2017-10-07T13:44:56","modified_gmt":"2017-10-07T17:44:56","slug":"the-woman-behind-whole-foods-top-selling-hot-sauce-calls-harlem-home-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/?p=407697","title":{"rendered":"The Woman Behind Whole Foods&#8217; Top Selling Hot Sauce Calls Harlem Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171004\/central-harlem\/mama-vy-hot-sauce-entrepreneur-whole-foods\">This post<\/a> was originally published on <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171004\/central-harlem\/mama-vy-hot-sauce-entrepreneur-whole-foods\">this site<\/a>.   <a target='_blank' rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171004\/central-harlem\/mama-vy-hot-sauce-entrepreneur-whole-foods\">Click here<\/a> to read the post and view byline and photo credits etc.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171004\/central-harlem\/mama-vy-hot-sauce-entrepreneur-whole-foods#\" class=\"js-modal media-modal not-active\" title=\"Vy Higginsen\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vital xs-xxxlarge\" src=\"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/assets.dnainfo.comextralarge-0172f01fd9b86e870684b7c78ef136c308df3477-1.jpg\" alt=\" Vy \" \/><\/a> Vy &#8220;Mama&#8221; Higginsen has lived on 126th Street all of her life. Four generations of her family have been there for nearly 100 years. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dnainfo.com\/new-york\/20171004\/central-harlem\/mama-vy-hot-sauce-entrepreneur-whole-foods#\" class=\"view-more pull-left dropup hide\" title=\" Vy \">View Full Caption<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>DNAinfo\/Gustavo Solis<\/p>\n<p>HARLEM &mdash; Vy Higginsen has been an advertising executive, a&nbsp;disc jockey, theater producer, gospel choir teacher and, most recently, a small business owner with a best-selling hot sauce flying off the shelves at Whole Foods Market.<\/p>\n<p>Her family has lived on 126th Street for nearly 100 years. She remembers Harlem before gentrification and&nbsp;the drug epidemic, when it was a neighborhood of middle-class black families.<\/p>\n<p>Higginsen welcomes change:&nbsp;&ldquo;When I was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post was originally published on this site. Click here to read the post and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":407698,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[124717284],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-407697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fdna","wpcat-124717284-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=407697"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":407701,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407697\/revisions\/407701"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/407698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=407697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=407697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harlemcondolife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=407697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}