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A Passion for Food.

Are food blogs still a thing? Are blogs still a thing? Maybe we should call this a ‘linked instagram with recipes’ instead. Although, the reason I’m starting this site has very little to do with staying relevant. It’s about staying interested. In my first love: food.

The short version:

Former pastry chef starts a food blog.

The long version:

For the past 10 years (or really since I can remember) I’ve been pursuing a food career and hyper-focused on what I thought it should be: a wedding cake business. I made my first tiered cake for my sixteenth birthday, and ever since have been “following my passion” as a career to avoid the office job grind. My passion took me to college, to study business so that I could work for myself one day. It took me to Peru, to study cacao farming and learn about my favorite ingredients at their source. It took me to Pastry School (where I had the time of my life) and got to meet so many food-obsessed weirdos just like me. It’s taken me to countless weddings and kept me up countless late nights. I don’t regret a single moment of it.

Food is by far still my single greatest personal passion. But, in my 30th year of life and 10th year making wedding cakes, I found myself in need of a change. I had spent the better part of my twenties elbow deep in buttercream, juggling my cake business and a full-time job. I had pulled all-nighters piping delicate royal icing onto sugar cookies. I had missed moments with my family because I worked weekends AND weekdays. I had cried on the way home from so many cake deliveries, it had just become part of the routine.

Even though I never relied on my cake business as my main source of income, the pressure of not living up to my self-imposed expectations of where I thought I would be by now caught up. Not to mention, the anxiety of weddings. One chance to impress a first-time (and usually one-time) client and if anything goes wrong, well, don’t worry, it was only the most important day of their lives. All of a sudden, I was so far from feeling passionate about anything, really.

My wedding cake business took me ten years to build, and a single afternoon to completely dissolve. I’d be lying if I said I was over it, and you’ll still find plenty of cathartic cake content here while I work through the loss. One of the biggest lessons I learned from it was the failure in isolating myself -not confiding in fellow business owners, turning down networking collaborations and building up walls so that no one could tell if I was even the slightest bit ‘illegitimate’. This site is about doing the exact opposite. Sharing family recipes, tutorials, tips, tricks- and finding the joy in baking again.

Food for me today is baking at home for my family. It’s what you bring to a neighborhood block party or drop off on a friends’ porch when they’re wading through a tough time. It’s what puts a smile on your face or fuels you through the workday. It’s both quick and easy, and complex and time consuming. It’s love. Let’s make it still a thing.

A disclaimer because I’m sensitive to the fact that so many of my fellow small business owners were forced to close their doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic. That was not me. I made this decision just ahead of March 2020 due to personal accelerators that were of course heightened by the pandemic, but not a result of it.