OUR MISSION

Enhancing people’s lives with harmonious foods and education for a healthy, literate, and productive future

Meet Lady Ren

Renate is a wife, mother, published author, gourmet baker, chef, and healthy lifestyle connoisseur, whose legacy to leave behind is being a fearless achiever and girl-power!

There’s a saying: “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” However, when life gave Renate lemons, she made “Superstar Lemon Bars” instead.

OUR HERITAGE:

Early 1970’s

Even though LadyRen’s Bakery & Books opened in 2012, the story of food, education, and healthy living  began in the early 1980’s.  Born and raised in British Guyana, South America, to two ambitious and hard-working parents, Renate developed the dedication of health and wellness from her upbringing. Her mom would have she and her brother in the kitchen helping with meal preparation. Her dad, a Charles Atlas body-builder graduate, introduced her to athletics and fitness.  Education was a key component of her upbringing.

1980’s

As a young girl Renate was taught by her parents that she could achieve whatever she set out to do, and as an adult, she did that. She achieved successful careers in the industries of Wall Street, Real Estate, and International Education, while living in New York. 

2003

One day, life handed Renate a bag of lemons with an uprooted lifestyle when her husband’s job relocated to North Carolina. She resigned from her job with the promise from the relocating office, that she’d have plenty of opportunities for work. However, every opportunity that she was told she would have, didn’t happen. No one was opening their door to hire her, which left her with no job, and the feeling of losing herself. Her skills and expertise were just fading away. She wasn’t happy.

 2012

Renate saw the need for better quality foods and literacy and felt strongly about providing something with originality that would make a difference in the community. She believes that we are living in a time where you must be creative and innovative. While writing her first children’s book, she had an “ah-ha” moment: “What if she combined her food knowledge and expertise, along with her corporate skills to create a job for herself?”  Implementing that concept, LadyRen’s Bakery & Books was born.

What followed was a roller coaster of failures and disappointments, and she almost ended before she started. During the process, she learned that hard times can be the catalyst to a great future. Leading up to where she built her empire and created her own happy place, and she loves sharing it to help people avoid poor eating habits, and to create healthy habits, not restrictions, so that they can enjoy food and good health too.

The requests for her recipes and tips about her lifestyle, led Renate to publish her first cookbook “JUST EAT, Pure and Simple Cooking”, filled with recipes from her culinary journey around the world, all drawing from her own rich heritage and experience where traditional South American foods meets North American treats. Her recipes are a guide to living a healthy and robust life as she shares her experience on how she eats using pure and simple ingredients. Her cookbook is the winner of a 2019 Platinum International MarCom Award.

LadyRen’s Bakery & Books Today:

From just one children's book and a batch of lemon bars in 2012 to 3 published books, including a platinum award cookbook to over 300 products, and new services. In order to grow you must adapt to change. When many suggested that I stick with one product, I did the opposite. Why should I conceal my other talents that can be used to serve others? If you don't use your talents, you will lose them.

LadyRen’s Bakery & Books is a café and bookstore concept founded on healthy living by providing baked goods made from scratch using pure and simple ingredients, and books as a form of education. Created in 2012 by Renate Moore, LadyRen’s Bakery & Books has now expanded its concept of healthy living with the addition of online cooking classes, concierge-chef services, and corporate and private event caterings. Each of which highlights Renate’s multi-talented expertise. She brings her wholesome, scratch-cooking approach and introduces new dishes and recipes as the center of customers and clients experience. From hand chopping and slicing all vegetables and meats, to scratch cooking or baking every sauce, dish, and pastry. She has helped clients and customers who have a desire to feed their families well, or live their best, most fulfilling lives through health & wellness, do so without imposing strict or overbearing practices. 

Taking her skills to another level, Renate private labeled her collection of 27 herbs and spices combined into ONE jar (LadyRen Chef’s Blend), that allows us to flavor food naturally. She launched her online cooking classes - “Let’s Cook & Just Eat” as a platform where she invites you into her kitchen and show you how simple it is to prepare tasty and healthy meals using pure and simple ingredients.

With her fearless attitude and cooking talents she was selected to compete in the Greatest Baker 2020 competition. Although, she didn't win, she made it to the Top 5 in her category. One of the reasons she entered this competition was that, winning would have allowed her to give back to her many charitable causes.

Renate became a Resident Chef on WBTV/Charlotte where she shares her talents and expertise in preparing nutritious and delicious foods.

Many of her community engagements involve working closely with the Humane Society of Charlotte, where she was nominated for the Women for Animal Welfare. She is very active in the community doing all she can to make a difference.