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Pastry Chef Encourages DHHS Students to Turn Hobbies into Careers

Pastry chef and author Julia Usher, a former resident of Guilford who now resides in St. Louis, visited Anita Ferron’s Family and Consumer Sciences Class at Daniel Hand High School (DHHS) recently to demonstrate and talk to students about career opportunities that may develop from hobbies. Usher discussed the culinary field with Ferron’s DHHS Bake Shop class and also demonstrated a variety of decorating techniques from her new book Cookie Swap. Usher graduated from Yale with an engineering degree, but chose to follow her lifelong love of baking, graduating from the Cambridge Culinary School and opening her own bakery, specializing in wedding cakes. She has been widely published in bridal and cooking magazines and has appeared as a special guest on several talk shows.