Most GW Law School graduates strive for the trappings of conventional success. Not Warren Brown. Brown, a former litigator, has chosen a career that brings him passion, and not necessarily a lot of money. Brown, JD ’98, MPH ’98, is the owner of the well-known cake and pastry shop Cakelove and its offshoot Love Café in Washington, D.C.

This entrepreneur did not always have his sights set on the kitchen. Brown previously worked in the inspector general’s office at the Department of Health and Human Services. After discovering that baking left him more fulfilled than law, he took some time off to develop recipes and hasn’t looked back. Soon he will open a second Cakelove in downtown Silver Spring, Md.

Brown will soon be sharing his passion for pastry with people across the country. He is the host of a new Food Network program, Sugar Rush, airing Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. On the program Brown visits restaurants, pastry shops, and bakeries across the country and then returns to his kitchen to cook the recipes he has learned. He also will be the focus of an upcoming episode of Recipe for Success, a Food Network program about people who have changed their careers by entering the food industry.