1. Cheryl Day was born on 1961 and is a baker and author, who is owner of Back in the Day Bakery in Savannah, Georgia and co-founder of Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice.
12 Facts About Cheryl Day
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Cheryl Day is the author of two best-selling cookbooks, written with her husband Griff Day.
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Cheryl Day's great-great-grandmother, Hannah Queen Grubbs, was an enslaved pastry chef noted for her baking, especially her pies and her frostings.
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Cheryl Day's grandmother taught her to bake, during the summers that Day spent staying with her in Alabama.
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Cheryl Day founded Back in the Day Bakery in 2002, and as of 2020 co-ran the business with her husband, Griff.
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The first book was entitled The Back in the Cheryl Day Bakery Cookbook, which was published in 2012 and was a New York Times best-seller.
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The second book Back in the Cheryl Day Bakery Made with Love was published in 2015 and records some of the most popular recipes made at the bakery, such as Alabama Lane Cake, Coca-Cola Cake and caramel cake.
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In 2015 Cheryl Day was a semi-finalist in the James Beard Awards in the category of Outstanding Baker.
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Cheryl Day's biscuits are made in their hundreds by hand, every day.
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In March 2020 Back in the Cheryl Day Bakery was closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, however it re-opened in June 2020 providing a walk-up services, as well as nationwide delivery for certain baked goods.
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In July 2020, Back in the Cheryl Day Bakery was a recipient of a $25,000 prize donated by Discover Card, to support black-owned business.
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Cheryl Day is a co-founder of Southern Restaurants for Racial Justice, along with Lisa Marie Donovan and Sarah O'Brien, an organisation which advocates for workers of colour in the food industry.