Today we’d like to introduce you to Fanny Inoa.
Alright, so thank you so much for sharing your story and insight with our readers. To kick things off, can you tell us a bit about how you got started?
I’m a cooking lover. I love to prepare both sweet and savory, but my history with cooking began very young, in my beautiful field of Cibao, in the Dominican Republic.
I grew up with my paternal grandparents and since I was a child I saw my grandmother and my aunts cooking on a stove. I remember getting on a chair so I could see how they prepared everything. Without realizing it, from that moment on a very special love for cooking began to be born in me.
I learned to cook at about 10 years old and, little by little, I discovered how much I enjoyed doing it.
Over time I emigrated to the United States and had the opportunity to work cooking in Puerto Rico. Later I moved to Florida and started taking courses on different things that caught my attention. I learned and enjoyed, but I still couldn’t find what I was really passionate about and what I wanted to dedicate myself to.
Then came the pandemic. We were all locked up at home and many people began to do lives teaching how to prepare desserts and meals. I started making the desserts I saw and, soon after, they started offering online baking classes.
So I was studying, learning, practicing, trying again and, above all, falling more and more in love with this world.
Everything I know today has been the result of a lot of learning, dedication and love for what I do.
Pastry is not just my job, it is a passion that I discovered and that I enjoy more every day.
And to think that it all started with a girl on a chair, watching her grandmother cook…
Today that girl continues to dream, learn and create with her hands everything that one day she started looking from that chair.
Alright, so let’s dig a little deeper into the story – has it been an easy path overall and if not, what were the challenges you’ve had to overcome?
The road has not been easy either. There were moments of doubts, mistakes and many things that I had to learn from scratch. Emigrating, starting a new life and trying to find what I was really passionate about were great challenges. But every difficulty taught me something and every mistake made me grow. I learned that I didn’t have to be perfect to start, I just had to have the desire to learn and not give up.”
What sort of changes are you expecting over the next 5-10 years?
Pastry is a sector that continues to grow and evolve. More and more people are looking for personalized products, made with dedication and that, in addition to having a good taste, are visually attractive. Social networks have also opened up many opportunities for small businesses to show their work and reach new customers.
My vision is to continue growing, learning new techniques and offering quality products that carry my essence and my Dominican roots. I want to continue developing my business, create new proposals and ensure that each customer can enjoy not only a dessert, but also a special experience.”
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