Careers
How NY Lawyer Became the Pie Lady
Posted Jan 23, 2009, 01:51 pm CST
By Martha Neil
Felicia Klein Fisher grew up in the New York City suburbs, hoping and expecting to be a lawyer. After graduating from St. John's University School of Law in 1995 and spending more than a decade as a commercial litigator in Manhattan, she wasn't looking to start a small business in Oley Township, Pennsylvania.
But once she met her husband-to-be, an 8th-generation resident of the area, in 1998, love eventually led to a career change, reports the Reading Eagle.
"For years, I commuted by Bieber bus three days a week to my law firm in New York," says Fisher, 39. "But after three maternity leaves, it finally got to be too much."
She now operates the Black Buggy Baking Co. out of a U.S. Department of Agriculture-approved former summer kitchen at her home, and is known locally as the Pie Lady, the newspaper reports. All of her pies and their crusts are made from scratch, using fresh ingredients in season--except, Fisher hastens to admit, for the canned cherries she uses because pitting fresh ones takes so much time.
She credits grandparents on both sides of the family with providing critical baking know-how that helped her business succeed.