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Mary Lou Cook is, literally, a Santa Fe Living Treasure, and when you meet her it is impossible not to get caught up in her enthusiasm for life. Like an organic, down-to-earth Auntie Mame, MLC, as she is known, has more excitement and energy and excitement than most. “It's great fun,” she exclaims. “I love my life!”

An author, calligrapher, and community activist, MLC always seems to have two to three businesses going at once. “These are fun things that I have a passion for,” she reveals. Currently, she teaches classes on bookmaking, pastecraft, spirit stick, getting organized, use of...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
by Maria Sutherland

When Sage Bakehouse co-owners Andree Falls and Amy Cox met in Dallas, Andree was running her own restaurant and Amy was completing a Master's in neurobiology. Both had been coming to Santa Fe to hike for years before they chose it as an ideal place to live. When they decided to open a bakery, the fact that they had no idea how to do it didn't deter them in the least. They approached Michael London, a well-known baking connoisseur in upstate New York. After settling on a mutually agreeable financial arrangement, London, a former English professor who believes that the most romantic thing...

Tuesday, January 15, 2008
by Maria Sutherland