When former Sault resident Stephanie Tucci - a professionally trained pastry chef - received an online invitation from The Food Network to audition for its Summer Baking Championship TV series, she thought the message was spam.
The Summer Baking Championship episodes can be viewed Mondays at 9 p.m. Eastern Time on Food Network Canada. Episode 5 will be aired soon. The Summer Baking Championship will wrap up before July 4. She returned to school, studying at The Italian Culinary Institute in northern Italy’s Piemonte Region. “I recognized at an early age that food had the ability to bring people together. To this day at our family dinners and parties people put their phones down and gather around the table and enjoy the food and conversation. Food becomes very celebratory.”
After a period of living in the Sault, Tucci said she desires to return and to live and work in this community.