It started when I was a child. We had a summer cottage about five miles from Lake Geneva Wisconsin. We would go to Lake Geneva on the weekends to get groceries. There was a bakery named Bitners that had the best brownies in the world. I fell in love with them and there began my love affair with brownies. I was 10 years old at the time and am now 53. I have tried brownies everywhere and the only place that comes closest (my mouth is watering now) is a restaurant/bakery known as Mary's Market in Rockford, IL. They have thick nut filled brownies with chocolate frosting there. When I am having a bad day I go in and get one. If's a REALLY bad day I go in and say "make it a double" I might have to leave my computer to go get one right now just writing about them. I have baked my own and had them worldwide but none compares to my initial first kiss when I bit into one at Bitners'