Huffington Post's new video series on entrepreneurs who built their dreams during the recession found a real Detroit original for their first installment -- Francophile, fashionista and fearless crepe-maker Torya Blanchard. She turned a storefront window and a bowl of batter into Good Girls Go To Paris Crepes, a bustling Midtown cafe with another location on the way. And we learned something new: the "Good Girls" moniker is inspired by a motherly admonishment over a case of sticky fingers.
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As an adult, she took a job at a Detroit public school where she
taught French for five years until her passion for Paris and its
cuisine, sparked years before by her mother's slap on the wrist, finally
bubbled to the surface.
Blanchard quit her job in 2008 at the age of 31. She cashed out her
401(k) and, without any business or restaurant experience, used the
$20,000 to open up a tiny creperie in downtown Detroit.
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