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My favorite ginger cookies 🍪 I used to buy them at Whole foods USA hopefully Amazon will keep them in stock. But what they couldn’t take was the reputation she’d built in the small village of Southhampton. “I re-mortgaged the bake shop and began again,” Kathleen said, with tears beginning to well up in her eyes. “And the community rallied behind me. A local graphic designer changed my labels, we got a new sign up and Kathleen’s was transformed to Tate’s Bake Shop in two weeks time.” Tate is Kathleen’s father’s name — a fitting tribute to the man who taught her the benefits of hard work and how to survive a storm. But the woman who began her cookie empire on the family farm did more than survive. She thrived. Three years later, Tate’s Bake Shop was back at the three million dollar mark and the two men who hijacked her business were out of business. Today Tate’s Bake Shop produces 1.7 million cookies every week and they are sold throughout the country at Whole Foods and Fresh Market, along with many other upscale supermarkets and grocery boutiques. The cookies have made their way to Canada, Hong Kong and St. Barts, but of course, they’re still sold in Kathleen’s Southhampton bake shop, and at her family’s roadside farm stand. The once exhausted entrepreneur has turned Tate’s into a 16-million-dollar business. #tatescookies #glutenfree #tatesnow #womenpower #playharder