09/13/2026
❤️ Story Behind the Story: National Grandparents Day
Long before culinary school, Disney kitchens, professional pastry kitchens or Storybook Delights... there was my grandma's kitchen. ❤️
Some of my earliest memories of being in the kitchen are with my grandmother. I remember standing there helping her and rolling out pie dough together. At the time, it was just something I did with Grandma. I certainly wasn't standing there thinking, “Yep, I'm going to make food my entire career.” 😂
But looking back now, I realize those little moments mattered.
Eventually I went to culinary school, became a pastry chef, spent years working in professional kitchens, and somehow ended up building a business where I get to create desserts that become part of other people's birthdays, weddings, holidays and family memories.
And it all started somewhere. ❤️
I think that's one of the reasons the stories behind food mean so much to me. A recipe can be more than ingredients written on a piece of paper. Sometimes it's Grandma's pie. Sometimes it's something you only make at Christmas. Sometimes one bite takes you right back to a kitchen you haven't stood in for years.
Maybe that's also why “Every dessert has a story” ended up becoming such a big part of Storybook Delights. Because some of my own food stories started long before Storybook ever existed.
So for National Grandparents Day, I want to know: What's a food, recipe or kitchen memory that immediately makes you think of your grandparents? ❤️🥧