Norman is the owner of The Sweet Life, Inc., a custom design cakery in Annandale, Virginia, as well as an award winning chocolatier. He is famous for his White Chocolate Curl Cake and his three-dimensional chocolate figurines. Norman is a member of ICES, GWAC, and is a charter member of CASANOVA. In addition to being a former Virginia ICES representative and former cake club president for CASANOVA, Norman was the Show Cake Chairman for the 2004 ICES Convention in Washington, DC. He is currently a committee member of the annual National Capital Area Cake Show. Information on the show can be found at www.cakeshow.org. Norman is a ICES Hall of Fame inductee and a Certified Master Sugar Artist one of seven in USA.

Norman has demoed at the Smithsonian, and he taught at Stratford College School of Culinary Arts. He is often featured on the TV show Historic Tours and Recipes, and he has appeared on Fox 5 News. He has competed in ten Food Network Challenge's. He participated in a Celebrity Cake Decorating Competition event with the T.J. Martell Foundation benefiting Leukemia, Cancer and AIDS research and helped raise $16,000. During the event he was paired up with Country Music celebrities Aaron Tippin and his wife, Thea Tippin. They were given 3 hours to create a cake to one of Aaron songs, "There Ain't Nothin Wrong With The Radio". They received the People Choice and 2nd place with the judges.

Norman co-authored Wedding Cake Ensembles, Cakes for All Seasons and was commissioned by the Washington Post to create a cake for President Clinton. He has also been featured in Cake & Sugarcraft, Cake Craft & Decoration, Food Art, The Washington Post, Washingtonian, Pastry Art Design-Magazine, People Magazine (A Cake From Every State where he was chosen to represent VA), and has been frequently featured in American Cake Decorating Magazine. Norman is working on a new book, Cakes on the Cutting Edge, with Zane Beg. The book and the Rose Chocolate Curler are available from The Sweet Life.

Norm's website is at www.thesweetlife.com