Autumn Martin, beloved for her Hot Cakes and her work at Theo Chocolate, has resigned as Theo’s head chocolatier. Her last Theo hurrah was last night at the Incredible Feast (”what a great event!”), she wrote, and her next culinary career move is “to live the life of a farmer in Spain for three months.”

She’ll be farming in the town of Sella, near Alicante, from mid-September until just before Christmas. The bulk of Hot Cakes will be on hold when she’s gone, but she’s stocking the freezer at Picnic so there will be some available there. She’s working on a Hot Cakes website, and plans to grow that business when she returns. (And she does plan to return, so this shouldn’t be another lose-’em-to-Europe goodbye like when the Bruschettina lady boarded a plane.)

Martin won fame and fans at Theo, with David Lebovitz (who literally wrote the book
on chocolate) writing that she was “crafting some of the finest chocolate confections I’ve ever tasted in my life.”

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