It's Baton Rouge: Out To Lunch

Necessity is the mother of invention. If you ve spent any time in the kitchen, you ve no doubt thought, more than once, about building a better gizmo or gadget to help you cook, clean or organize your kitchen. Perhaps you ve even done it. But have you been able to get your invention before 250 million eyes on the QVC shopping channel Gaye Sandoz has. If you don t recognize Gaye s face from QVC you might recognize her name from the LSU Ag Center Food Incubator, which she runs. In her spare time Gaye is the owner of The Clever Kitchen, a company that has created the Microwave Barbecue Roaster, a microwave roasting pan that turns out a perfect rotisserie style chicken in 32 minutes flat. Whether the roaster will take the culinary world by storm just yet remains to be seen, but it s making a big splash on the QVC network, QVC.com and all over the internet. Michelle Schroeder also knows a thing or two about selling an invention on QVC. Her product, the Easy Greasy, is a specially designed strainer that connects to