A satisfying note of sweetness lingers when two sisters tell a story of destiny. It begins with the little girls growing up separated by the Pacific Ocean, one in New Zealand and the other in California. Each thought she was an only child until their biological father revealed a life changing link. "We hadn't had a lot of contact with our father. Prior to him passing away, he reached out to me and said it is really important that you know you have a sister, and you meet your sister," says Andrea McBride, Founder and CEO of eco.love Wines.
Other relatives nurtured the connection until Andrea and her sister, Robin, met for the first time in 1999. Andrea was almost 17 and Robin 26. The seeds of a close friendship planted that day in New...
Growing up with soul food dishes on the dinner table, nourishes the love many people have for such traditional dishes as fried chicken, macaroni and cheese, greens with ham hocks, candied sweet potatoes and buttery biscuits.
Long before she put on her first chef’s jacket, Erika Davis learned to add a pinch or two of passion to her dishes. Her grandmother and mother taught her to bake “from scratch” and to make jelly from the strawberry patches she played in on the family farm. By age 12, Davis was baking cookies and selling them in middle school.
