Stephanie Bertorelli’s mixer doesn’t come out often, in her kitchen.
“I’m not a baker,” she says, laughing. “I don’t bake, I don’t like it.”
But the mixer did make an appearance, the first anniversary of 9/11.
“On that day, I was like, ‘You know what, I’m going to bake cookies and bring them to the firehouse,’” Bertorelli says.
Now, she has done that every year, for 18 years.
“My personal hope is that none of us forget what it was like in those days right after [9/11],” she says. “When we were all a community, and we’d all come together, and this is almost my way of trying to keep that going.”