Developing recipes based on sweets eaten during trips to various regions in Italy, translating recipes to English, perfecting classic recipes, and offering these prized sweets to customers is incredibly stimulating work with so many rewards. In what other job is quality control such an unalloyed perk? And baking is in her genes… Her great-grandfather, a Swiss immigrant to the United States in the early 20th century, and later, her grandfather after returning from active service in WWII, were both bakers and bakery-owners.