Tiina Fernandez Polvere has been baking since she was 12 year old, beginning around 1973. She catered lunches and desserts to New York City's Public Theater. At the same time, she began her first catering company, appropriately named, "Tiina's Tea Time". Tiina went on to attend several cooking schools,... The Culinary Institute in Hyde Park, New York., Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, France, and Saucier, in New York City, as well as, Parsons School of Design in New York City. 

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In 1981 Tiina worked as a pastry chef and bread maker in many of Nantucket's most famous restaurants. She then went on to make Nantucket her permanent home and soon after, founded Nantucket Cake Company, establishing herself as "The Cake Lady" crafting custom-made cakes and desserts for her long time customers and restaurant chefs. 

In 2010, Tiina moved her Nantucket Cake Company to downtown Nantucket's Historic District and named her new venture, "Petticoat Row Bakery" -- connecting her new chapter to the Nineteenth century history of the area when many of the business were either owned or run by women. 

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One sleepless night in 2015, Tiina heard a 1970's song playing in her head at 3AM and took the first steps to create her new cookie business that she would soon name, "Nantucket Bound Cookies". As the name implies, you are either BOUND to visit Nantucket or you are BOUND to return someday! 

Today, keeping true to her beginnings, Tiina owns and operates her original Nantucket Cake Company and Nantucket Bound Cookies, with her daughter, Elizabeth, from their home kitchen on Hummock Pond Road, 30 miles off the coast of Massachusetts.