The bakery here at Cook’s Fresh Market is one of the first things you see when you come in to the market. Faces lights up and smiles abound when people see the whole cakes, tarts, pies and tortes, cookies, brownies and breakfast pastries. Truly a sweet tooth’s paradise! Would you like to meet our baker and pastry chef, Brian? Here you go….

Q: What’s your favorite dessert to eat? A: Brownies with ice cream.

Q: What’s your favorite dessert to make? A: Ice Cream! Flavor? Vanilla

Q:  Favorite beverage?  A:  Milk…oh, wait…really it’s freshly pureed and strained grape juice!

Q:  Dessert with milk, coffee, wine or another beer?  A:  Milk please!

Q: Did you have a career before you went to culinary school? A: Accounting and I hated sitting behind a desk all day. I went to the New England Culinary Institute and that’s where I met my mentor, Brent Kimbrough.

Q: Favorite baking ingredient:  A:  Honey

Q:  Favorite Cookbook:  The Flavor Bible, In the Sweet Kitchen, Hamelman’s Bread

Q:  Love or hate to “decorate” cakes?  A:  Don’t mind it at all

Q:  Biggest baking disaster?  A:  In culinary school someone put salt in the sugar bin and I used it to make a 30lb batch of butter cream.

Q:  Favorite thing to cook at home?  Vodka penne with a piece of fried chicken on the side.

Q:  Favorite thing to cook for a date?  Chicken Fra Diablo or Marsala.

Personal Info:  Single, 2 yellow labs named Ranger and Caspian, astrological sign is Cancer