Earlier this month, Gretel-Anne Fischer teased on the Facebook page for her Winooski bakery, Cupp’s, that she’d soon have a big announcement. “Any ideas on where [I’ve] been the past 7 weeks?” she wrote. “We can’t spill the beans yet but once we do HOLY COW it’s HUGE!!!!!”

Well, consider the beans spilled. On November 26, Fischer will make her national television debut as a contestant on TLC’s “Next Great Baker.”

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AAN award-winning food writer Alice Levitt is a fan of the exotic, the excellent and automats. She wrote for Seven Days 2007-2015.