Cleveland’s Shawnda Moye is creating a recipe for community, one biscuit at a time

Shawnda Moye, Cincinnati-born chef and Cleveland entrepreneur, believes food is beyond what is placed on a plate – that food is about memory, fellowship and making room for others to find their place at the table. Moye, a Black lesbian and the owner of The Roaming Biscuit, a bakery and breakfast spot in Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood, grew up surrounded by home cooking. Her mother and grandmothers made food from scratch, a legacy she happily inherited. She fondly remembers her mother’s light, fluffy homemade biscuits and the breakfast sandwiches she would prepare for her. Moye eventually began selling those same sandwiches for $5 each at the bus stop, turning her mother’s homemade breakfasts into a childhood side hustle she didn’t confess to until she was in her 30s. That $5 bus stop hustle was an early glimpse of what would eventually become a business. For Moye, cooking and entrepreneurship were intertwined long before she received her business degree from Miami University.

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