MARIANA'S began with a great love for cooking and feeding people. Owner Deb Breggia McLaughlin recalls, "My grandmother Mary and great grandmother Anna were the consummate "Chefs", ensuring the most important ingredient was always used -- Love.

Mother had a great influence on my growing passion for cooking. I remember always watching mom in the kitchen, creating the most magnificent pies from scratch with her little hands. I can never forget the smell of the apple and lemon meringue pies on the window sill cooling. How impressed I was with the recipes mom would so easily create... always with her French flair, making everything taste 'Gourmet'.