About Us:

The biggest contributor to the success of TGO is the combination of people we have working here.

Trevor and Zaidee Laughlin opened TGO in August, 2001. Trevor is the foodie in the household - his mother started doing cooking shows on Buffalo (NY) Public Television in the '70's and then opened her own cooking school, well before the modern popularity of that genre. Trevor learned well from his mother - he appreciates all aspects of food, from the ingredients through the cooking to the eating.

While you may periodically see Zaidee working in the shop, she spends most of her time upstairs "doing the books" - someone has to, you know - and putting together the weekly email. The Laughlins have lived in Plattsburgh since 1991 (Zaidee's parents moved to the area in the late '70's) and they knew that the time was right for this type of store.

Donna Bell loves food from A to Z. She loves growing it, shopping for it, cooking it and eating it.  According to Donna, the store is a playpen full of toys. "Plattsburgh needed this kind of store and I'm so happy to be part of it. And it's saving me a lot of gas money," now that she doesn't have to travel to Burlington, Montreal and beyond to find wonderful ingredients. Donna has been part of the gang since two weeks before the store actually opened!

Other staff members, with varying lengths of service and very flexible work-schedules, include Dale Dowdle, Loretta Rietsema, Jim Votraw, Kathy Besaw, Shawn Turner and Adam Lewin.  Without this wonderful crew, Trevor and Zaidee would still be trying to figure out what shelf to put the Aged Balsamic Vinegar on!