Bonnie Tempesta in Newsweek
Bonnie Tempesta, 42, never dreamed that she was creating a cookie monster when she baked her first biscotti in ’83. Today her La Tempesta bakery produces 300,000 twice-baked biscotti a day. Annual revenue approach $9 million. While Oreos may not be worried, ’90s sophisticates wouldn’t be caught dead dunking anything else in their coffee.