My passion for great coffee and pastries began with a Swedish mother who was an avid baker and loved a steaming cup of the fragrant brew.

In the 1990's I worked as a pastry chef for a dessert-of-the-month club business making cheesecakes, cinnamon rolls, and other baked goods on a commercial scale.

Then, in 1997, my love of coffee and home-baked goodies evolved into a mail-order gourmet coffee, biscotti, loose tea, specialty hot cocoa, and accessories company we named Brown Paper Coffee Company - or BPCC - for short.

After four years in business, we had to let it go.

But six years later I found myself in Bend, Oregon working for a handcrafted biscotti and coffee roasting company. I was a sales rep covering a 10-state territory.

Now, more than 20 years after first launching BPCC, I am returning to my first love under a new name: Tracy's Cozy Kitchen.

Thank you for joining me as I share some of my mother's original recipes, some of my own, and promoting goods from other entrepreneurial people who share my heart for homemade comfort foods and carefully curated beverages.

Warmly,

~Tracy Partridge-Johnson