After graduating, she decided to start Sweet Silk, she says, because she wanted to apply her newfound cooking techniques to making Indian desserts more upscale.
She started Sweet Bites in October 2006 as a wholesale maker of gourmet brownies, but found she could not compete at craft fairs with vendors of cheaper chocolate-covered apples and fudge.
Those who start sweet can linger over one of Susana's wonderful pastries while others fill up on Del Tomate's substantial tortilla Argentina, the egg and potato frittata localized and assimilated into the Argentine diet.
Starting tomorrow, sweet portraits by Mr. Kanarick will be on display at Dylan's Candy Bar, 1011 Third Avenue (60th Street).
NUCHAS This kiosk, in a recycled shipping container covered in wood, specializes in Argentine-inspired hand-held food, starting with sweet croissants in the morning.
There's an inversion going on here – which is quite weird – starting with sweet and ending with the savoury, which is essentially a large lozenge-shaped meat (osso bucco with pea shoots – that combines salty and sweet).
Dao is a real person, who makes an excellent gateau, but after starting with sweet stuff, the menu expanded to include Thai and international offerings - fusion is eschewed for consistent cooking and quality ingredients.
"Starts sweet, ends bitter," was Mr. Ammerman's enthusiastic assessment.
Black farmers in Louisiana weren't getting paid fairly for their sweet potatoes, so they started a sweet potato cooperative and found their own markets—in many cases up north.
The company is also expanding into other food categories, starting with sweets and desserts.
