Jennifer Thornton, a Strongsville resident with a passion for baking and cooking with olive oil, is opening a culinary school, bakery, and boutique with French antiques in North Royalton. The new business, Buttercream & Olive Oil, will be located in a former Lawson's store.
Updated: Dec. 17, 2024, 5:07 p.m.Jennifer Thornton of Strongsville bought a former Lawson's store in September. Workers are renovating the building, which is in North Royalton , into a new home for her Buttercream & Olive Oil culinary school. NORTH ROYALTON , Ohio -- A Strongsville resident with a passion for baking and cooking with olive oil plans to open a culinary school, bakery and boutique with French antiques on West 130th Street in North Royalton .
The business will occupy a 2,600-square-foot building that originally housed a Lawson’s store. “We have a full half-acre there and green space that we want to revitalize,” Thornton said. “That would be phase two -- creating a garden space for our clients.”“It would reflect our philosophy of local and seasonal foods,” Thornton said.and directly across the street from Strongsville.Buttercream & Olive Oil isn’t new. Thornton established the business in 2014.Students learn how to bake and cook omelets, cakes, French macarons, tarts, burgers, sponge cakes, jams, croissants, puff pastries, biscuits, pies, street foods, cannoli, milkshakes, Nashville hot chicken, fried green tomatoes, cream puffs, éclairs and breads.Outdoor classes in the summertime have been held at Richardson Farms in Medina and A.B. Phillips & Sons Fruit Farm in Berlin Heights. “We will keep connections with the farms, and will maybe take class fields trips there, but we will also have outdoor classes at the new place,” Thornton said.Meanwhile, customers can order pastry, olive oil, specialty ingredients and even books and French antiques from the Buttercream & Olive Oil website. Thornton developed a love of olive oil and French antiques when she moved to France in 2007. It was there that she tasted fresh olive juice for the first time. For five years, she traveled throughout Europe to attend olive oil classes and conferences. As she learned the harvesting, milling and blending process, her devotion to olive oil gre
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