Amy Emberling’s love of great food began in her childhood home of Nova Scotia, where she feasted on lobster and wild blueberry cake. She learned to cook in her mother’s kitchen, at the Ritz Hotel in Paris and in a couple of Michigan restaurants before following her passion for baking to Zingerman’s Bakehouse. Though Frank tried not to hire her, Amy argued her way into being on the original team of bakers when the Bakehouse opened in 1992. She then served as the first Bakehouse manager and later managed the Pastry Department.

In 1996 Amy left Ann Arbor, and settled down in New York City. While in NYC, Amy completed her MBA from Columbia University — the perfect compliment to her undergraduate degree in Social Theory (with special emphasis on the Marxists) from Harvard. Armed with a renewed confidence that baking is much more fun and spiritually rewarding for her than management consulting, Amy returned to the Bakehouse as a Managing Partner in the summer of 2000.

Amy's explosive laughter combined with her tendency to cry during the Canadian national anthem preceding a hockey game, are part of the fabric of her complex persona.