Maribeth Gandy and Smita Premkumar are friends, data analysts, and moms who enjoy hosting parties and cooking meals for others. One afternoon in January of 2020, as they were picking up their kids from an Atlanta elementary school, they decided to take their love of cooking to the next level. ‘We had an idea to mix Maribeth’s Southern cuisine with my Indian roots to create something that could be easily sold and consumed at summer festivals,’ said Premkumar. ‘We decided on savory handheld pastries, which we named Coffyn Pyes after the twelfth-century term for pastry.
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