We started over twenty years ago when it seemed to be more fun being in the kitchen preparing holiday gifts than being in crowded stores and long lines of anxious folks waiting to make purchases. My holiday purchases consisted of one-stop shopping for twenty pounds of flour, twenty pounds of sugar, ten pounds of butter, and bunches of nuts and eggs. Baked cookies, cakes, and nuts were packaged and shipped to family and friends on the East Coast and the Midwest. Over and over they insisted, "You need to sell these nuts!" And finally all that inspiration paid off and I started Cheryl's Kitchen.