- Name: Mary
- Surname: Schellhammer
- Location: 6320 Five Mile Centre Park #315 Fredericksburg, VA 22407
- About Me: The first question I am asked by everyone I meet is always the same…..How did you come up with these flavor combinations? In order to answer that question, I need to start at the beginning. After spending over 15 years in a successful sales career, one day I asked myself if I could do anything, what would I do? After much soul searching the answer was "I love to cook". I decided to start my own personal chef business and My Extra Hands personal chef service was born in December 2005. The personal chef business entailed preparing a week's worth of meals at a client's home and storing them in their refrigerator with heating instructions. I also held dinner parties and small events in clients' homes. It was during this time that my obsession with herbs and spices developed. I was fascinated that you could grow herbs in different conditions and change the way they would taste. In addition to my herb fascination, I had always been a lover of anything chocolate so each cooking session always ended with me preparing something chocolate. During one of these cooking sessions, I discovered the unusual combination of rosemary and chocolate. I would leave these little chocolate creations behind at cook dates and parties. Soon requests started coming in for the chocolates as gifts. Before I realized what was happening, my personal chef business had transformed into a chocolate company. After some time in research and development, I took the chocolates public in September 2006 with just five flavors and the ugliest packaging you have ever seen!
I never thought of myself as an artist, but I do believe I have found my creative passion. I like to say "I am an artist…my medium is chocolate and my canvas is your tongue."
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