It looks like 2023 will go down as the year of the king cake — at least in my book. I have bought more king cakes, eaten more king cakes and sold more king cakes this year than all my previous years put together, probably by a factor of 20.
Robert St. John
For the past six years, I have been working on opening a bakery in my hometown of Hattiesburg. But I wasn’t going to go forward with it until I had two very specific people on board — Pastry Chef Martha Foose and her husband and head baker Donald Bender. As early as 2016, I started working to try and get them to move out of the Mississippi Delta and down to the Pine Belt.
