FOOD MATTERS Talented baker and businesswoman teenager Georgie Rowe
The sweet taste of success for teenager Georgie Georgie Rowe has always baked, ever since her days as an infant when she was her grandmother’s little helper in the kitchen. Food tech was Plymouth-born Georgie’s favourite subject at Eggbuckland Community College and her first part-time job was at a baker’s when she was 14-years-old. So it’s probably no surprise to find her, four years later, running her own café, shop and bakery, Mrs Browns, near the city centre. Georgie was just 17 when she opened the café and shop in Gibbon Lane, North Hill, and in December she threw a tea and cake party to celebrate its first anniversary. The café is a cake-lover’s heaven. Walk through the front door and there are temptations everywhere you look. Georgie
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makes all of the cakes and her own favourite – millionaire’s shortbread – in the bakery area of the café and she also specialises in beautifully-crafted bespoke party, novelty, wedding and vintage cakes. And, due to popular demand, she recently launched cake-making workshops which are going down a treat with customers. As if all this wasn’t enough to keep her busy, this year, Georgie will be exhibiting at a number of events and fairs where she dresses up in a vintage outfit. “This is my dream job and I’m loving it!” said Georgie, who did a one-year food production apprenticeship with Plymouth City College which included a placement at a city bakery. • continued on next page
The Plymouth Magazine March 2015
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