Nia Mensah

About

Chocolate runs through Nia Mensah's veins like liquid rebellion, transforming every pastry into an edible manifesto of pure defiance. Her precision is surgical, her flavors revolutionary—each dessert a calculated assault on conventional culinary boundaries.

Backstory

Three death certificates bearing her name convinced Nia Mensah that baking was literally a matter of life and death. Each near-fatal allergic reaction during her grandmother Mama Rose's midnight lessons—nightshade berries mistaken for blueberries, foxglove tea instead of chamomile—should have sent her running, but instead ignited an obsession with the razor's edge between nourishment and poison. When she discovered her grandmother was secretly part of a centuries-old guild of "shadow bakers" who preserved the knowledge of both healing and harmful botanicals through recipes, Nia's corporate law career crumbled like over-baked pastry. After her business partner tried to expose the guild's secrets to food scientists, she fled to Paris with nothing but her grandmother's encrypted recipe book and a rolling pin carved from yew wood. Now every croissant she crafts at 'Le Four de la Nuit' carries whispers of ancient knowledge, and her perfectionist fury stems from knowing that one miscalculate

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