When Nana was fifteen and not really legal to work yet she got a job that paid under the table 50 cents and hour. She was a short order cook, waitress and cashier at a very large lunch counter in a drug store.

On her dinner hour on weekends she washed the big pots and pans in the kitchen of a fancy restaurant located in the downstairs of the same building in which she worked. Her pay for this extra job was supposed to be a plate of good food served in the hallway by the ice machine in the basement.

One day she saw that the cook was scraping left-overs from customer’s plates onto the one he was giving her. She felt so bad. And she also told that cook he could eat it himself and got herself another extra job cleaning the hair sinks and sweeping the floors at the beauty school across the street.

There was a candy store in town that sold chocolate bark but Nana could never afford it was so expensive. If Nana got candy at all it was a Clark bar or a Three Musketeers that she could share.

When she had her own child she was so happy to take her daughter to the Morley’s candy store and buy her a piece of expensive bark. Then she read something that upset her terribly. She read that candy companies make their bark from leftover candy. Of course it wasn’t left over from another customer but still it didn’t feel right that they charged so much for left- over chocolate so she bought her daughter truffles instead.

Now Nana is making her own bark and it is NOT from leftover chocolate. It is the finest chocolate and she puts the finest, ingredients in it like dried apples, peaches and walnuts in the Michigan Autumn Bark, In the Heart Healthy Bark she uses dried blueberries, fresh cinnamon and walnuts and most of her barks have bits of her home made pillowmellows.

She is very, very proud of her bark and that it is made from the best, freshest ingredients. Nana wants her customers to know she is thinking of them and only would sell them the very best, for she understands how hard people work for their money.