Produce from Mimi Brown’s farm in Napa Valley finds its way to San Jose to be used in savories and sweets at her Paris Avenue bakery. (Photo courtesy of Paris Avenue)
There are bakers. There are pastry chefs. There are farmers.
Mimi Brown is all three, and she’s got the acreage to prove it.
She and her husband, Ed, founded and operated the wildly popular Flower Flour bakery in San Jose’s Willow Glen for 14 years, before selling the business in 2017 to devote full time to their Wine Country venture, the Napa Farmhouse Inn in St. Helena, with its lodgings and 3-acre