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Tennel Bryant comes from a big family, but he named Aunty's Homemade Food for one aunt in particular: Yzete Doty. She taught me how to cook everything and that turned out to be excellent, Tennel says..

So excellent, when Tennel took some samples of his lasagnas to a big grocery chain, they asked if he could supply 254 stores. Tennel wasn't prepared for such large-scale production, but that experience proved to him that his recipes, some his own and some passed down, are winners.

Tennel started Aunty's in Louisville, where he studied business at the University and played a little football. But his family and resources were in Cincinnati, where he grew up, so he returned to open Aunty's Homemade Food in the market house tower June 24, 2006. He chose Findlay Market because it's a melting pot of all kinds of people, he says, and they're all looking for good food.

Here he sells his gourmet all-natural frozen entrees, made without preservatives, ready to take home, heat and eat. Tennel offers nearly 20 choices in all, from spaghetti and meatballs to southwest chicken Alfredo, vegetarian lasagna, cheesecake and four kinds of gourmet bread pudding all spiked with his signature brandy sauce. People don't have time to cook as much anymore, Tennel says, but his frozen meals offer homemade flavor, easy to reheat at home, without losing quality and within a family budget. That's "homemade flavor with a homemade taste." Just try my meat lasagna, he urges, that's seven layers of meat-that's huge!

Of course, Tennel doesn't do this all by himself. That's where that big family comes in. His wife, cousins, mother and grandma all pitch in. And football plays a role here, too. Jermaine Richardson, who went to culinary school at Johnson and Wales, helps with food production. But the first time Jermaine and Tennel met, they were football rivals. Tennel played for Moeller and Jermaine for Purcell Marian. Now they're working toward large-scale production of Aunty's flavor and hope to franchise Aunty's gourmet taste in the future.