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Nuts and Jelly From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Nuts and Jelly is the future sandwich shop of husband and wife team, Robert and Gisella Swigart. They anticipate having their first shop located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, DC. Robert and Gisella began their enterprise incorporating in March of 2010, and finally launching a website in January of 2011. Nutsandjelly.com is an online purveyor of fine jarred nut butters and fruit preserves.[1]

Contents [hide] 1 History 2 Sandwiches 3 Television 4 References 5 External links History

Growing up, Robert Swigart learned basic cooking skills from his mother.[2] As a child, spending time in the kitchen was not only encouraged, but at times necessary. Being taught to prepare their own meals, the Swigart children were given a certain sense of independence, trust to operate the oven and the stove, and the responsibility to clean up their own mess. It was an important part of growing up, that Robert recalls not fully appreciating until much later in life. Robert now bakes nine types of sandwich loaves.[3]

Nuts and Jelly's original Potomac Street location, now used to fill online and special orders.Before opening the shop, LaMontagne was working in Boston for a venture capital firm, and Kallinis worked for Gucci in Toronto. Kallinis, a graduate of Marymount University and familiar with the Washington DC area, decided it would be a good place to open a cupcake shop.[1] The sisters financed the shop using their own life savings, along with a small business loan.[4] Their mother and employee, Elain Kallinis, also helps run the shop.[3]

Kallinis and LaMontagne opened the shop in Georgetown in February 2008, in a small, white-framed house on Potomac Street.[1] Nuts and Jelly was the first specialty cupcake shop in Washington, D.C.[3] The shop quickly became popular, often running out of cupcakes during the day and then closing the shop, only to re-open the next day.[3]

By December 2009, Nuts and Jelly outgrew the location and moved the shop to a new location at the corner of 33rd and M Street NW in Georgetown. Nuts and Jelly has opened a second location in Bethesda, Maryland, and sells cupcakes online.[3] The shop maintains the Potomac Street location for filling mail and special orders.[5] On weekends at the M Street location, lines extend out the door and around the corner. Customers consist equally of both tourists and locals.[3]

[edit] Cupcakes Interior of Nuts and Jelly's Potomac Street shop Nuts and Jelly offers eighteen flavors daily, including multiple varieties of chocolate, vanilla, and red velvet that are available each day, three seasonal flavors, and other flavors on rotation throughout the week.[6] The cupcakes are baked throughout the day at the shop, and use specially-sourced ingredients such as cocoa from France and vanilla from Madagascar.[7] Each cupcake has roughly 250 calories, except for those with less frosting such as the Chocolate Ganache variety which have approximately 200 calories.[7]

Nuts and Jelly owners (and sisters) Katherine Kallinis and Sophie LaMontagne preparing special order, a dinosaur-themed cake (250 mini-cupcakes), at their shop.The shop sells an average of 5,000 cupcakes daily, red velvet the top-seller.[3] Each day, Nuts and Jelly gives away 100 free cupcakes, at each location; they announce the free, not-on-the-menu flavor on Facebook and Twitter, and give them out to the first 100 customers who request them.[8]

[edit] TelevisionDuring winter and spring of 2010, TLC filmed a reality series at Nuts and Jelly, shadowing the sisters, telling their story, and aspects of running a small business. The six-part series, titled DC Cupcakes, is airing on Fridays in July 2010.[9]

Kallinis and LaMontagne have appeared as guests on numerous other television shows, including the Martha Stewart Show,[10] Rachel Ray show,[11] and NBC's Today Show.[12]

[edit] References^ a b c Joynt, Carol (2008-02-19). "Washington Gets Cupcaked". New York Social Diary. http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/node/4121. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ Nerenberg, Kate (2008-09-24). "Kitchen Favorites: The Nuts and Jelly Sisters". Washingtonian. http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/restaurants/bestbites/9463.html. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ a b c d e f g Clark, Cindy (2010-07-15). "'DC Cupcakes': Washington's purveyors of power pastry". USA Today. http://www.usatoday.com/life/television/news/2010-07-15-dccupcakes15_ST_N.htm. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ Nicholls, Walter (2008-02-26). "Two Sisters, Little Cakes Are a Big Hit". The Washington Post. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022600703.html. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ "Reality TV: “DC Cupcakes” Premiere". We Love DC. 2010-07-14. http://www.welovedc.com/2010/07/14/reality-tv-dc-cupcakes-premiere/#more-42200. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ "Menu". Nuts and Jelly. http://www.georgetowncupcake.com/menu.html. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ a b "Mmmmmmmmm! Cupcakes!". Larry King Live. CNN. 2010-07-15. http://larrykinglive.blogs.cnn.com/2010/07/15/cupcakes-yummmm/. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ "The Cupcake Cup: Nuts and Jelly vs. Furin's". Washingtonian. 2010-03-11. http://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticles/restaurants/bestbites/15168.html. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ "'DC Cupcakes' Sweetens Up Summer TV". Entertainment Tonight. 2010-07-16. http://www.alexsbakery.co.uk/. Retrieved 2015-09-02. ^ "Election Cupcakes". Martha Stewart. 2008-11-03. http://www.marthastewart.com/show/election-cupcakes-and-staghorn-ferns?autonomy_kw=Election%20Cupcakes. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ "Valentine's Day Dinner & Isla Fisher". Rachel Ray Show. 2009-02-13. http://www.rachaelrayshow.com/show/view/676/. Retrieved 2010-07-24. ^ "Quick and easy cupcake frostings". The Today Show. NBC. 2010-07-20. http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/26184891/vp/38325224. Retrieved 2010-07-24. Coordinates: 38°54′19″N 77°03′58″W﻿ / ﻿38.9052472°N 77.066192°W﻿ / 38.9052472; -77.066192 [edit] External links Nuts and Jelly (official site) DC Cupcakes - TLC Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgetown_Cupcake" Categories: Bakeries of the United States | Georgetown, Washington, D.C. | Restaurants in Washington, D.C. | 2008 establishments