New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

Rolling in dough! BAKER’S RECIPE FOR SUCCESS

For Motueka parents Josiah and Rachel Smits, food is a family affair. In peak summer, every morning they make 700 gourmet doughnuts from scratch and everyone does their part helping run the family restaurant, The Smoking Barrel.

Vienna Rose, 10, covers promotions, roller-skating in a chicken suit to drum up attention.

Roman, eight, is always eager to lend a hand waiting tables, can cook better than most adults and is desperate to follow his dad into the hospitality game.

Rachel, 39,

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