Forget craft paper-wrapped granola for grannies. Melbourne-born, London-traveled and now Amsterdam-based granola enthusiast and designer, Sarah Napier, is making granola cool again with G for Granola. Striking graphics and quirky copy ahem, Granola for Gangsters make the granola something you want to show off on your kitchen shelves.
The delicious alternative to quick weekday breakfasts is "handmade and baked with attitude" at the food incubator Kitchen Republic in Amsterdam.
We talked to Sarah about our love for breakfast, Amsterdam's evolving brunch scene and finding a balance between work and baking.
Tell us about yourself. I was born in Melbourne, Australia and lived there until I was A lot of Australians do, even my parents lived in London when they were younger. Even though I still had the desire to travel more and find that next place, I found myself back in Melbourne through a series of debatable choices. How long did you stay before you decided to leave again? At that time, a friend from high school who was living in Amsterdam contacted me and I thought it was a nice opportunity to get out of London for a little while.
I wandered around town, biked along the canals on beautiful sunny autumn days, and thought, this is actually kind of nice. Although I was desperately trying to find work in London, something just came up in Amsterdam and it felt like the natural next step.
