The running joke at the Barrid residence is that if their pet Yorkie devoured a meal cooked by mama Caroline, it meant she had done a good job. For 13 years, the terrier mix, who ate what his human family did, was the guinea pig for home chef Caroline Barrid's food experiments. "Yorkie loved my food. He would gobble down anything I gave him, especially poha and bhajiya pav," the Bandra resident says. Yorkie passed on in May this year, during the lockdown. Around the same time, Caroline quit her job at a call centre, because the erratic work-from-home schedule, had robbed her of peace and time with family. So, when she decided to re-start her catering business, it seemed fitting to name it after her beloved, late pet.

Yorkies Snacks, a fledgling home food service launched this June, is the brainchild of Caroline and husband Maurice Barrid (Mickey). The slim menu offers veg and non-veg snacks that the couple prepares together. From corn and cheese balls, spring rolls, to wantons and chicken hariyali, as well as baos stuffed with teriyaki, manchurian and tikka masala, the treats are a reflection of their peripatetic lives. Before settling down in Mumbai in 2013, the Anglo-Indian couple and their four sons, lived in New York and Kuwait.