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Carrie and her team make final preparations to open a new store in Charlotte, NC. In the middle of it all, Carrie must return home to celebrate her daughter’s birthday. Shortly after a successful opening, the pandemic hits.
Formats: Streaming Copyright Date: 2021
It’s a full life, every day. Carrie Morey runs a growing business based on her mother’s biscuit recipe. She does this from her kitchen, her car, food festivals, her daughter’s volleyball games and anywhere else she finds herself.
While her staff of bakers compete to make the best pie, Carrie takes employees to a South Carolina dairy farm to see how one of their essential ingredients, buttermilk, is made. The day ends making fresh biscuits with the farmer’s wife.
As Carrie seeks to rebalance her work and her life, some big decisions loom about the future of the company. Will she have to close a store? Can she afford to expand the bakery? Is she willing to let go of some things in order to grow?
Carrie takes a RV road trip with chef Nathalie Dupree to explore biscuit making. They arrive in Atlanta, meet with a local chef and reflect on how they all came to understand the cultural importance of biscuits.
Follow culinary entrepreneur Carrie Morey—a baker, entrepreneur, mother, wife, and daughter, who transformed a mail order biscuit company into one of the South’s top small business success stories.
Carries creates recipes for her next cookbook, enlisting a friend to assist in the process. She also meets with a renowned local barbecue chef to discuss collaborations and mentors a woman just entering the online bakery business.
The Morey family puts together an outdoor feast on the barrier islands. This year Carrie shows us how she prepares oyster pie with her aunt, makes a mess with a guest from the U.K. and passes a family recipe down to her youngest daughter.
On the day Carrie and her team are set to finally launch a rebrand of their biscuit business, the coronavirus overtakes America. Over the next months, she will shed staff, run out of flour, but also discover a new path to success.
Carrie makes shrimp and grits with her dad. They create a giant feast with Callie, her culinary inspiration and mom. Then she and her friends create a girls’ only dinner and re-live how they banded together to launch the biscuit empire.