Creamy Rainbow Bakery and Cafe 1526 Dresden Row WHO SHE IS Helen Zhao dreams about cakes, breads and desserts as soft as clouds. Raised in China, where bakeries are filled with a combination of savoury, sweet and creamy treats, Zhao couldn’t find the equivalent in Halifax. She craved dough mixed with egg milk and stuffed […]
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Unni Simensen
Founder and former chef, Scanway Catering It was back in 1980 when Unni Simensen opened Scanway Catering. “Everybody called me Mr. Simensen,” she says, laughing. “There weren’t too many women.” Simensen has always been a perfectionist, even when it made things difficult. “I had to get a few things sent from the market in Boston […]
Everyone loves Halifaxcakes.com
For her daughter’s first birthday, Nanette Shroff went to Costco to buy a cake and went online to see what other people were doing to decorate them. She wasn’t impressed. “You see what other people have done and go, ‘I could do that.’ My first goal was to be the mom who decorated her own […]

