Taren Kinebrew started baking around the age of five with her grandmother, and later a friend told her she should start selling her desserts for a living — a notion that was, at the time, the furthest thing from her mind. It wasn’t until much later in life she began imagining baking as a career.
Now, Kinebrew’s Sweet Petit Desserts has been located at 1426 Race Street in Over-the-Rhine for the past four and a half years. Along the streetcar path and just a few steps from Washington Park, her shop was one of the first 3CDC tenants in a busy, historic neighborhood that continues to transform.
In this first-ever video version of Coming Clean: 5 Questions, Kinebrew tells Soapbox about the people who helped her shop become what it is today, her plans for the near future and her biggest hopes for ongoing revitalization in OTR.
To learn more, browse the tempting sweets or to sign up for a baking class, visit https://www.sweetpetitdesserts.com.
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Josh Purnell is a Cincinnati-based photographer and videographer as well as a regular contributor to Soapbox Cincinnati.