Louie & Honey's co-owner writes Amish Baking at Home

A local bakery owner has written a cookbook evoking memories of her childhood in Ohio.

“Amish Baking at Home,” just released by Fox Chapel Publishing, is the first book by Naomi Stutzman Gingerich, co-owner of Louie & Honey’s Kitchen.

Gingerich and her daughter Natalie Gingerich started pop-up bakery Lavender and Honey in 2017 and opened their retail location at 407 West End Blvd. in 2020, eventually changing the name to Louie & Honey’s Kitchen.

Naomi Gingerich grew up in the Amish/Mennonite community of Holmes County, Ohio, and the kitchen lessons she learned there from an early age inform much of the baking at Louie & Honey’s Kitchen – not the least of which is the bakery’s popular cinnamon rolls.

Gingerich said she was not planning to write a cookbook – until someone from Fox Chapel