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Local Taste: Waylynn Lucas
The Food Network and Bravo television star and former bakery owner settled in Park City to get back to her mountain roots and finish up her recently published cookbook. story by Allison Arthur
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s soon as you approach Waylynn Lucas’ Silver Creek home, you are greeted by a pack of dogs, horses and goats. Still, you won’t find the TV chef and judge looking messy or disheveled. Her hair will be curled in her signature ’do, and there will likely be a freshly baked cake in the kitchen or the scent of some sort of treat she has recently experimented on lingering in the air. Somehow she manages the mini-farm and her busy cooking career while looking relaxed, confident and distinctly not frazzled. The 39-year-old chef moved to Park City two years ago after she sold her famed Los Angeles bakery business, Fonuts. She was first thrust into television fame with the Bravo reality show Eat, Drink, Love when she was just branching out on her own after a stint as a pastry chef for José Andrés and opening Fonuts. The recognition catapulted her non-fried doughnut business into a big hit, and she moved on to hosting and judging shows like Cupcake Wars, Cake Wars and Halloween Cake-Off. Lucas grew up in the mountains of Colorado and her mother had settled in Park City, so when she decided to make a move back West, it was a great fit: “I came to visit and fell in love,” she says. She was working on her first cookbook, Sunny-Side Up, which was published last summer after she finished testing recipes in her kitchen here. We wanted to find out more about her perspective on food and dining in Park City.
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