Myra, our owner and founder, began traveling the world in her teens to visit family and explore Europe during college. As a travel agent, she visited sixty-five more countries and noticed different sweeteners served with coffee and tea. In some hot, humid regions, sweeteners had higher melting points. Other countries offered unique sugars that were very different from the standard white sugar she knew from rural Kankakee County, Illinois growing up. She started bringing these sugars home as souvenirs for family and friends. Myra loves to mix and experiment, so she gave jars of her unique blends as holiday gifts, and everyone loved them! She discovered that coffee tastes much better with the right sugar, who knew?!. Over the years, she experimented with spices, fresh citrus, and unique flavors to find the best combinations. One day, an ex-bartender called her a Gourmet Sugar Mixologist for blending culinary tradition with innovative ideas. That's how Bellflower Blends began in 2024!
Now she works with a small creative team of people who help her in the kitchen and in the office. They make the days that much sweeter and we’re proud of our Bellflower Babes!
At Bellflower Blends, our goal is to create sugars that dazzle the eye, delight the palate, smell pleasing to the noise, and bring you joy.
Fun Facts:
Myra has lived in Northern Illinois, Southern California, New York City, Boston, Massachusetts, and Nashville, TN.
She has her BA in both Theatre Arts and in Journalism from Bradley University in Peoria, IL.
She has a Master’s Degree in Critical and Creative Thinking from the University of Massachusetts - Boston, and a Master’s Degree in Religion from Harvard University, with ten extra classes in Social Justice and the Humanities.
She starred as “Earth Mother” in “Menopause, the Musical,” in Los Angeles, and Off-Broadway in New York!