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Northshore October 2025
Mary Ann McCormick Co-Owner of Lark Fine Foods in Essex, maker of "cookies for grown-ups." By Dana RousmaniereWhere she works: A small space rented from Timothy S. Hopkins Catering in Essex. Why cookies:  "It was really a fluke. I was more or less retired from my career in corporate marketing and wasn't looking for anything else to do when [my daughter] Nicole started making these rich, spicy chocolate cookies. I brought them to a little gourmet shop one day and asked if they would consider selling them. Those cookies later became our award-winning Cha-Chas, though we went through four different names first."Her award-winning "coo
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