Katherine Slevin has been in the baking and pastry industry for over 17 years. She’s worked in the pastry kitchens of luxury hotels, cake shops, family-owned boulangerie-pâtisseries, Parisian pastry giant Pierre Hermé, and finally James Beard Award Winner Standard Baking Co. in Portland, Maine, before striking out on her own to start the C. Love Cookie Project and C. Love Baking Academy. Katherine’s lifelong commitment to pastry and serving others continues to propel her work, highlighting immigration by using the art of pastry as a connection point. She strives to empower immigrant women to join the baking community in Portland, Detroit, and beyond.
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