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Cutchogue woman launches North Fork Taffy company

By Vera Chinese

North Fork Taffy owner Deborah Dufton with a display of her product at Fork and Anchor in East Marion. (Credit: Vera Chinese)
North Fork Taffy owner Deborah Dufton with a display of her product at Fork and Anchor in East Marion. (Credit: Vera Chinese)

Deborah Dufton has fond memories of making vanilla taffy with her Suzy Homemaker brand taffy puller in the early 1970s, imitating her mother who would make the salty candy from scratch.

“I played with it for years and years,” Dufton said during a recent interview at Fork and Anchor in East Marion. “My mom used to make taffy when I was little. She was a candy fanatic.”

Four decades later, Dufton, now a mother of five herself, is dusting off that skill for her recently launched business North Fork Taffy.

Read the complete story on northforker.com.

Vera Chinese has been the editor of northforker.com and northforker magazines since May 2014. Prior to that she spent two and a half years as a staff reporter for the New York Daily News. She joined the Riverhead News-Review as a staff writer in January 2010 and was named Associate Web Editor nine months later. She previously worked for the Southampton Press Western Edition and was named the third place 2008 Rookie Reporter of the Year by the New York Press Association. She graduated from Wagner College in 2006 where she received a bachelor's degree in English. She earned a master's degree in English education from New York University in 2007. She is a 2002 graduate of Eastport High School and has lived on the East End for more than 20 years.

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