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Commander in Cookie
July 30, 2004
By Mary Kate Frank Weekly Reader Editor
Long before Sen. John Kerry dreamed of being president, his aspirations were simpler. He wanted to sell great chocolate chip cookies.
In 1976, Kerry and his friend K. Dun Gifford opened a cookie shop in Boston's Quincy Market. They named the store Kilvert and Forbes, using their mothers' maiden names. Kerry, a lawyer at the time, contributed family recipes to the sweetshop.
Kilvert and Forbes still sells plenty of cookies, brownies, and coconut macaroons, but Kerry is no longer involved. He bought his friend's shares of the business and sold the shop in 1982. Today, mostly teenagers, working to save money for college, staff the shop. One of them is Doriana Andrea, 18. She'll attend the University of Massachusetts at Boston in the fall.
Though she's worked at Kilvert and Forbes for three years, Andrea told Weekly Reader she's never met Kerry. "I'm not really into politics," she said.
She does, however, enjoy the chocolate chunk cookies that are made using Kerry's family recipe. A Weekly Reader editor who tried one can confirm that, should the presidential bid not work out, Kerry could still have a future in cookies.
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