When Will Porter returned to his hometown of Gilbert after graduating with a film degree from Tufts University, a simple idea took him on an entirely new path.
He wanted a fresh croissant with breakfast.
He picked up the roll-and-bake versions, packed in a pressurized tube, from the grocery store. The results were “completely inedible,” he recalls. He resolved to learn how to make them himself. That interest turned into an obsessive hobby. In 2022, he moved to France to study pastry and spent the last four years working at renowned patisseries and restaurants there and in Dubai…