Want to know what happens when you tell me no? A pie company happens, that’s what. Or at least, that’s how Dini’s Divine Homemade Pies came to be a small business.

When I started the business of pie in the fall of 2021, I did it for love.

At the time, I loved a man and making him pie was a complete joy. It started on his birthday with a Key lime pie, his favorite. It was the best he’d ever had, he said. “There’s a market for this,” he said.