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Buzzworthy Breakfast Honey Bee’s Biscuits + Good Eats takes the most important meal of the day to the next level Written by
CHERYL BAEHR Honey Bee’s Biscuits + Good Eats www.honeybeesbg.com
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he first time oney ee’s iscuits ood ats owner ike Shadwick made breakfast it didn’t go so well. e thought he’d do something nice for his mom so he went into the kitchen cracked two eggs into a bowl plopped in a scoop of margarine mi ed it up and presented it to her without the concoction ever hitting a frying pan. Considering he was just three years old that mistake was understandable but it didn’t deter his family from letting him play around with food which fostered a love of cooking especially breakfast food that he carried with him into adulthood. Those days of raw eggs and margarine from a tub are now long behind Shadwick who opened oney ee’s with his wife eredith in une . Still he can follow the thread of his breakfast food obsession back to those earliest memories through adolescence and into adulthood where cooking eggs bacon sausage and the many other staples of morning mealtime was a constant. To him making breakfast was about more than simply throwing together a meal he was always inspired to put his own spin on things even if it was simply adding honey and sea salt to illsbury rands canned biscuits. That little touch made the store bought brand much better but it wasn’t enough for the Shadwicks. ver the years Shadwick had developed an outstanding sausage gravy recipe and the pair felt that they needed a from scratch option to match its uality. t first eredith began e perimenting
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There’s a reason Honey Bee’s Biscuits + Good Eats has “biscuit” in the name. Pictured here are versions with everything bagel seasoning, honey-glazed and chocolate chip flavors. | MABEL SUEN with making her own biscuits for the gravy but they were not what Shadwick had envisioned. e took her recipe as a starting point played around for a while then passed it back to her where she tweaked it until it was perfect. The e perience underscored just how much Shadwick loved cooking. owever he never thought he’d make a career out of it until a couple of years ago when he left behind a ten year career in sales. While he was unemployed for a year and a half his wife suggested that he look into restaurant work as an option. Shadwick committed to taking the first food gig that came his way which ended up being a job as an mo’s i a delivery driver. etermined to see where the opportunity led he dove headfirst into the job and reali ed how much he loved the industry. ick mo who operated the Central West nd store where Shadwick was based recogni ed his passion and drive and promoted him eventually taking him under his wing where he learned the ins and outs of the business. Shadwick got the opportunity to learn even more about the culinary side of the restaurant game after a friend connected him with ichael and Tara allina. With no cooking e perience outside of
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Honey Bee biscuits are hand-rolled and cut. | MABEL SUEN mo’s Shadwick went into an interview for a line cook position at Winslow’s Table and got it thanks to his attitude and work ethic. n just three weeks he’d fallen into a groove at Winslow’s and got the sense that he was finally doing the sort of work he was meant to do. owever the e perience was cut short when the pandemic hit town shuttering Winslow’s and flipping the restaurant world on its head. Though he was disappointed that his run at Winslow’s was so brief Shadwick left there with the confidence to make a career in the
restaurant business. fter e ploring what that would look like he and eredith decided to go out on their own and build upon the passion for breakfast food that he’d been cultivating his entire life. That passion translated into oney ee’s which opened as a food stall at the irkwood Farmers’ arket last summer. uilt around his signature honey gla ed biscuits the outfit enjoyed immediate success selling out every Saturday it showed up for service. Within three weeks the Shadwicks knew they had to e -
