t’s not often that a person walks away from a successful, 22-year as a consultant to become a baker, but Tasos Katsaounis isn’t some overmatched Nailed It contestant trying (and failing) to recreate an elaborate cake. The man, who some might recognize as the husband of popular Houston radio personality Roula Christie (The Roula & Ryan Show), has been baking all his life.
“My mother was taught at a young age by my grandmother how to make bread,” Katsaounis tells CultureMap. “My mother taught me how to bake bread. About two or three days a week, mom and I would bake bread until life got too busy for me.”
Life stayed too busy until last February, when a conversation with Christie prompted Katsaounis to resume baking as a hobby; he thought he might be able to gift friends and family with an occasional loaf, as his father-in-law, Houston restaurant legend Jim Christie (Christie’s Seafood) had done prior to his death. Within weeks, people who saw pictures of his efforts on social media inquired about purchasing bread.
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