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I spoke with Collette Divitto, owner of Collettey’ s Cookies, and her mother, Rosemary, recently for a candid discussion about Collette, her bakery, and the relationship between them as business-owner and manager / advisor. It was an interesting, inspiring and even fun conversation. The pair frequently answered each other’ s questions, teased each other, and always kept it real. I knew their relationship was good and it was close, even though Collette has“ fired” her mother not once, but six times! They laughed about that one.
Of course, no interview would be complete without sampling the actual product. So I went online to Colletteys. com and easily placed my order, two dozen chocolate chip cookies – without cinnamon.( More on that later.)
A couple of days later, a well-packaged, beautifully-adorned bounty of cookies arrived via UPS( free shipping by the way). I had a great dinner that night but the cookies were calling me. After dinner, I treated myself to two of the most delicious, fresh, chocolate chip cookies I have ever tasted. A few days later, one dozen is gone( yes, I did share with someone) and one dozen is left. Oh, and they can be frozen if you can’ t finish all of them. But why wouldn’ t you finish all of them? Honestly, once you have eaten these cookies there are no excuses for“ leftovers”.
Fred J. Maahs, Jr.