About Me

I’m a Southern-Italian girl (ironic I know), but I guess you can say I was born to love food. I grew up in a household where the kitchen is the heart and soul to a family. It’s where my grandmother taught my mom to cook, and my mom taught me. These two women shaped and nurtured my love for cooking.

My grandmother was blasphemous to traditional Italian women – she believed that you always share your recipes with one another. To her, recipes are a piece of your soul that you share with those you love. I can still hear her telling me that the most important ingredient in any recipe is love, it was the difference between her brownies and another's. Whether she was making breakfast or serving dinner, she’d never forget to go around and sprinkle ‘a little love’ on each of our plates.

Every time I bake, I think of my grandmother and my mother. For me, the best desserts I make are always the ones I let enter my heart and take a memory– even with those recipes that aren’t mine. Whether it’s the zest of an orange reminding me of my grandparents’ orchard, or leveling off flour the way my mother once instructed me. You have to let a recipe pull out a piece of your heart and put it into the food you make. By doing so, those you fill up with your sweets will also be filled up with your love. :)