The Truth About Coffee + Alex Clark’s Fave Arizona Spots To Eat | Patrick & Ashley Sullivan
Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark
Turning Point USA
4.8 • 15.1K Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
This Scottsdale coffee shop nearly got shut down for serving raw milk lattes — and Big Food is losing it over this story. ☕
I sit down with Patrick and Ashley Sullivan of Firefly Organic Coffee Shop & Market (exec producers of Breaking Big Food, streaming now on Apple TV & Amazon Prime) to spill the truth about the American food system, the fight for clean food, and our absolute must-hit Phoenix spots. 🌿
Our Guests:
Patrick & Ashley Sullivan
Patrick & Ashley's Links:
Firefly Website
Firefly Instagram
Breaking Big Food Documentary
Breaking Big Food IG
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| 0:00.0 | What do coffee shops not want customers to know about their beans? |
| 0:03.1 | The darker the roast, the more likely mold was in the beans originally. |
| 0:08.7 | Did your coffee shop almost get shut down for making raw milk lattes? |
| 0:12.2 | It was nerve-wracking. |
| 0:13.3 | Who do you think is the most toxic coffee brand? |
| 0:15.0 | Who sells the most coffee? This coffee. This coffee shop nearly got shut down for serving raw milk lattes, and big food does not want |
| 0:47.0 | this conversation happening. |
| 0:48.5 | Today I'm sitting down with Patrick Sullivan Jr. and Ashley Leroux Sullivan, owners of Firefly |
| 0:53.4 | Organic Coffee Shop and Market in Scottsdale, |
| 0:55.6 | Arizona, and the executive producers of the new feature documentary that I am in breaking big |
| 1:01.4 | food, how the American food system went rotten, and how it's being revived, now streaming on Apple TV |
| 1:07.0 | and Amazon Prime. Did you know I'm in a documentary? Okay, I feel like that's kind of cool. |
| 1:11.8 | In this episode, we also list out all our favorite clean food options in the Phoenix area. |
| 1:18.4 | I get asked this question every day, where should I eat when I am in Phoenix? So get out a pen and |
| 1:23.6 | paper or your notes app and write it down. Please welcome the makers of breaking big food, |
| 1:28.4 | Patrick and Ashley Sullivan, to culture apothecary. Did your coffee shop almost get shut down |
| 1:36.3 | for making raw milk lattes? Well, um... This close. It was nerve-wracking. When we found out |
| 1:43.0 | that someone had written a letter to the state saying that we were serving raw milk and it was illegal in the state of Arizona to serve raw milk. |
| 1:50.0 | We didn't know that. |
| 1:51.0 | We thought as long as we weren't preparing anything with the milk, we were only doing ice drinks. |
| 1:56.2 | So literally pouring the milk into the cup and that is it. |
| 1:59.5 | We weren't doing hot drinks where we |
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