Amanda welcomes her readers to her blog! She is an American with Southern and Italian roots, who has somewhat randomly found herself living in Gravesend, Kent, famous as the final resting place of Pocahontas.
She loves to bake and has been creating desserts for more than 20 years. After years of taking photos of her family favorites and pâtisserie experiments, she decided it was finally time to try sharing some of these.
She’s originally from an extremely rural town in Maryland, near the Pennsylvania border. Although they’re technically a ‘southern’ state courtesy of the traditional North/South boundary at the Pennsylvania line, her real southern roots are courtesy of her mother – born and bred in North Carolina.
On her dad’s side, they’re Italians – her grandfather arrived by boat through Ellis Island in the 1920s, eventually settling in Altoona, PA – home of the world-famous horseshoe curve (more on this later).
When she was growing up, they cooked and baked foods from both of her parents’ family repertoires and cultural heritages, with some Old Bay thrown in to represent their adopted home of Maryland.