SUZAN KALLASH

Sep 17

Baking Sweets

Bachelor of Architecture ‘18 at The City College of New York

Inspiration

What inspired you to pursue baking?

Baking has always been my happy place. Whenever I needed a stress reliever or a pick me up, I would head to the kitchen and get baking. I find baking to be a form of design, but instead its edible! Upon graduating two years ago (June 2018), I had the opportunity to travel back home to Aleppo, Syria. I had not been to in over ten years, therefore there was a whole lot I was missing, especially THE SWEETS. Coming back to NY I realized that my favorite sweets are no where to be found locally or in the US. So, I did some research, consulted with “family chefs”, gathered my intel and started producing traditional Syrian sweets. It took some tweaking and adjusting to get to the perfect result, but I am happy to say that I am very proud of where we are at this time.

*Syrian Delicacies Packaged for Customers - Courtesy of Suzan Kallash*

*Syrian Desserts - Courtesy of Suzan Kallash*

Time Management

How did you manage to maintain your time?

To be honest, I would say that starting Syrian Delicacies has made my management of time much better! Knowing that I have orders coming in and orders going out, I needed to set a fixed schedule that I would have to stick to no matter what. At this current time, I am running my shop full-time, but I of course still enjoy architecture/design!