cookiesinheaven

opens tomorrow in its new location at the corner of De La Vina and Alamar!

(although they haven't updated  their website as of 7:30 this evening...)

Labels: Bread, Our Daily Bread, Santa Barbara

Is open. 

They aren't loafing around...but their loaves are getting around. See where you can pick up a slice...or two. C'est Cheese. Le French Press.

Oh, and you'll "knead" to follow them on Facebook, Twitter, and their blog, too. They serve up terrific bread...and, if we may be so bold to say, CRUMBy jokes as well.

"FAVORITE ACTOR? DEFINITELY BREAD PITT."

Labels: Bread, Breaking Bread, Goleta, Santa Barbara

Labels: bakery, Bread, Lompoc, Wine

Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods is a widely-known provider of organic grains, flour, and baking mixes. It operates in two locations in the Portland, Oregon, suburb of Milwaukie (yes, that’s how they spell it), distributing its products throughout North America and to Asia and the Middle East. It is privately owned, has 209 employees, revenues estimated to be between $20 million and $30 million per year, with year-over-year revenue growth of 20 to 30 percent over the past five years.

It made international news in 2009 when its steel cut oats product (one of my favorites) won the Golden Spurtle Award at the 16th Annual Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship in Scotland.

In a move reminiscent of Aaron Feuerstein of Malden Mills, it was announced on Tuesday that the founder, Bob Moore, is transitioning the company to an employee-owned firm through an employee stock ownership program (ESOP). - Ernest T Bass diary over at the Daily Kos

Labels: america, Bread, corporations, Oregon

....Short supplies have raised the price of wheat worldwide and sparked protests over the cost of tortillas in Mexico and pasta in Italy. In the United States, it's raised the cost of such basic goods as bread, cereal and pizza.

...The price of bakery and cereal products rose 1.8% in February, the largest monthly increase since January 1975. Overall, the cost of eating at home has risen more than 5% so far this year, the fastest rate since 1990.

...The plight facing small bread makers like Bohbot -- and much larger businesses such as Sara Lee Corp. -- prompted the American Bakers Assn. to hold a protest march in Washington, D.C., last week.

Labels: baking, Bread, prices, wheat

Interstate Bakeries Corp. said today its Wonder bread brand would disappear from Southern California grocery stores after it shuts down bread baking operations in the region Oct. 29.

Kansas City, Mo.-based Interstate said it planned to close all four of its Southland bread bakeries, located in Glendale, Pomona, San Diego and in Los Angeles southeast of USC. The company will also close 17 distribution centers and 16 outlet stores.

In all, about 1,300 jobs will be eliminated.

Wonder bread was first marketed more than 80 years ago and has been sold in Southern California since at least the 1940s, the spokeswoman said. Interstate acquired the brand when it bought Continental Baking Co. from Ralston Purina Co. in 1995 for $461 million in stock and cash. - Latte Times

Labels: bankruptcy, Bread, Food History

Labels: Bread, Recipes

Nancy Silverton is rebelling a little later in life than most. At 52, the Los Angeles chef, who translated her training at Lenôtre into a widely respected career as a pastry chef, cook and business owner, has really gotten into prepared foods. “I’d forgotten how good V8 juice tastes!” said Silverton, who spent a year combing the aisles of supermarkets and specialty stores in search of kitchen catalysts for her seventh cookbook, “A Twist of the Wrist: Quick Flavorful Meals With Ingredients From Jars, Cans, Bags and Boxes” (Knopf). “I’m waiting to get the phone call from Alice ... ,” she said of her mentor, the world-renowned food purist Alice Waters. - NYTimes

Labels: Books, Bread, celebrity chefs