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Bonnie Lynn Tempesta (January 5, 1953 – September 25, 2014) helped pioneer the gourmet food movement in the United States. Called "the Queen of Biscotti."〔Wood, Jim. "Epicure." ''San Francisco Examiner''〕 Tempesta "effectively started the national biscotti craze."〔Fletcher, Janet. "Playing the Market." ''Oakland Tribune'' 30 Oct 1991〕 With her mother Aurora Marcheschi, Tempesta founded La Tempesta Bakery Confections in 1983.〔Simonds, Shelly. "Recipe for Success." ''San Francisco Business Times'' 28 Oct 1994〕 The bakery grew to become the largest biscotti maker in America,〔Simonds, Shelly. "Recipe for Success." ''San Francisco Business Times'' 28 Oct 1994〕 producing 300,000 biscotti cookies daily and generated annual revenues approaching $9 million by 1995.〔Adler, Jerry. "The Rise of the Overclass; The Overclass 100." ''Newsweek'' 31 July 1995: 32–46〕 In 1982, Tempesta used her Florentine aunt Isa Romoli's recipe to produce biscotti — the flat, crunchy, twice-baked cookies traditionally used by Italians to dunk in wine or espresso.〔Scicolone, Michele. "Sweets to Lower Into a Drink Without Raising Eyebrows." ''The New York Times'' 8 Jan 1992〕 Baking them from home, she began selling them to her employer at Confetti, a downtown San Francisco chocolate shop.〔Rotenier, Nancy. "La Tempesta." ''Forbes'' 18 Dec 1995〕 With a $15,000 loan from her brother,〔Shurluff, Lawrence. "Blood and Money." ''Working Woman Magazine'' Dec 1992〕 Cork Marcheschi, "a noted neon light sculptor,"〔Schreibman, Jack. "She Found Road to Riches Lathered with Chocolate." ''The Modesto Bee'' 28 Dec 1989〕 Tempesta rented a commercial kitchen in South San Francisco.〔"Rotenier, Nancy. "La Tempesta." ''Forbes'' 18 Dec 1995〕 She began producing a long, thin biscotti known as "biscotti di Prato"〔Jordan, Sheryl. "When Our Fancy Turns to Food." ''The Boston Globe'' 30 July 1986〕 and sold them door-to-door to San Francisco’s specialty food shops.〔Kummer, Corby. ''The Atlantic'' June 1987〕 By 1984, La Tempesta biscotti were available at Neiman Marcus and Lord & Taylor, followed by Bloomingdales, Macy’s and Dean & Deluca.〔Rotenier, Nancy. "La Tempesta." ''Forbes'' 18 Dec 1995〕 In 1985, La Tempesta developed Cioccolotti, the first commercially sold chocolate-dipped biscotti. In 1992, La Tempesta’s Biscotti di San Francisco made the Washington Times 10 Best New Products list,〔Olney, Judith and McCall, Celeste. "New Twists in Life." ''The Washington Times'' 5 Aug 1992.〕 and The Washington Post rated it the number one domestic brand.〔Heater, Maida. "An Expert’s Urge to Bake the Best." ''The Washington Post'' 16 Dec 1992〕 Collaborations with renowned San Francisco chocolatier Joseph Schmidtfollowed.〔King, Sarah Belk and Frazier, Ann. "What’s New. What’s Hot. What’s Good." ''Bon Appetit Magazine'' Oct 1995〕〔Kaufman, Pamela. "Selects." ''Food & Wine Magazine'' Oct 1995〕〔Fletcher, Janet. "Million Dollar Discards." ''San Francisco Chronicle'' 9 Aug 1995〕〔Nangle, Hilary. "La Tempesta Teams with Joseph Schmidt." ''Gourmet News'' Vol. 60, # 4, April 1995〕 In 1994, Tempesta created the non-profit Teen Inspiration Foundation.〔Giuca, Linda. "Biscotti Bakery Has A Cause." ''Hartford Courant'' 23 Nov 1994〕 In December 1997, La Tempesta was sold to Horizon Food Groups. In 2012, Bonnie started a small, philanthropic baking company in Kenwood, CA, called Boncora (the name Boncora is derived from Bonnie's name, “Bon,” and “ancora,” which means encore in Italian.) Her handmade Tuscan-style almond cookies are twice-baked in the regional style of the famous Biscotti di Prato of Prato, Italy. Los Angeles Times Food Editor Russ Parsons called Boncora Biscotti "dynamite" in his (Daily Dish ) column on September 14, 2012. She donated a portion of every sale to a favorite cause: Pets Lifeline of Sonoma County, a local nonprofit animal rescue organization. Bonnie Tempesta died on September 25, 2014 at her home in Sonoma after a brief battle with cancer. She was 61.〔San Francisco Chronicle, Obituaries, Sept 2014 http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/sfgate/obituary.aspx?pid=172677065〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bonnie Lynn Tempesta」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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