Rebecca Martin is the owner of Sweet on You, an artisan bakery in Stamford, Connecticut. Sweet on You is the culmination of a life long interest in the pastry arts, a passion for the cake artistry and respect for slow food. At Sweet on You, no cake design is ever repeated. And each cake and pastry is made from scratch, to order, from the best chocolate, European butter and fruits.
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Born in India, Monica moved to the United States in 1991. Monica has written three cookbooks, The Spice Is Right: Easy Indian Cooking for Today, The Everything Indian Cookbook: 300 Tantalizing Recipes–From Sizzling Tandoori Chicken to Fiery Lamb Vindaloo, and Modern Spice (with a foreword by Mark Bittman). In addition to her writing, Monica owns and operates her own cooking school, which has been featured in Bon Appetit. She currently resides in the Washington, DC metro area, with her husband and young sons.
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Founded by tea connoisseur Nini Ordoubadi in 2003, TAY TEA is a New York-based company specializing in exclusive hand-blended artisanal teas. All ingredients are 100% natural and wild-crafted. Nini’s tea shop, TAY HOME, is in Andes, New York and she maintains a website (www.taytea.com) where people can learn about the deep and vast global culture of tea.
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Amanda Cohen is the Chef/Owner of Dirt Candy in the East Village in NYC. After graduating from the Natural Gourmet’s Chef Training Program, Amanda worked in many of New York City’s vegetarian restaurants, including Other Foods, Angelica’s Kitchen, Pure Food and Wine, and Heirloom, which won Time Out New York’s Reader’s Choice Award for “Best New Vegetarian Restaurant.” Amanda has also worked at DinerBar in Spanish Harlem and was the first chef at Teany, Moby’s teahouse on the Lower East Side.
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