Coming Our Way: YouTube Phenom Preppy Kitchen Moves to Connecticut.

We do not see this often enough. An internet sensation has moved from California to Connecticut—and without subsidies from the Department of Economic and Community Development.

John Kanell is a popular food blogger whose Preppy Kitchen YouTube channel enjoys more than 600,000 subscribers—plus one million Instagram followers. Kanell moved himself, his family, and his program to a bucolic region of Connecticut this fall. The cheerful former math and science teacher shows the world how to bake one episode at a time.

Preppy Kitchen videos will soon feature Kanell’s substantial new studio/cooking space, which appears to have given the local construction industry a boost.