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Northshore October 2025
Melita Fiore wanted to study fine art. But that’s not what happened. Instead, she wound up a paralegal in a law office where things were, well...stale and, at times, sad. “People do not seek attorneys for joyous occasions,” notes Fiore, who now spends her days in an anything-but-stale and nearly always joyous place— her own pa?tisserie. When she was 15 years old, Fiore worked in a little bakery called Wheat Berries owned by an Italian couple in Manchester-by-the-Sea. On Sundays, “an old nonna” came in to help. Fiore remembers that everything was made from scratch and, though there was not a great variety
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