In a world where more is demanded all the time, it’s worth remembering that to do a few things very well is of great virtue.…
At 80 years old, Oma Irngard has become a best-selling cake baker. Not only has she found her carrot cake recipe attracting repeat orders, but she has baked it so often it’s child’s play for her to get up to…
How many bakers found themselves leaving another life behind to be, quite accidentally consumed by bread? While it’s not quite the profession you sleepwalk into,…
A beautifully minimalist interior that skips Scandi cliché to evoke an airy French sophistication, an open bakery workspace that’s as inconspicuous as it is glaringly…
Founder of Northumberland’s Bread and Roses Bakery, Andrew Smith’s professional baking life has been one of sharing. The very notion of baking and breaking bread should be inherently sociable and communal; something Smith’s approach to learning, business and, in turn,…
Borough Market’s famous Bread Ahead Bakery, renowned for it’s queue-forming doughnuts, will open up a fourth site at Wembley Park, it has been announced. Despite…
The light on one of Porto’s copious sunny days bounces off the Douro River straight into the face of the city with its tall, pastel…
The leap from home baker to opening a wholesale or retail bakery is a gap too far for some, while the curiosity of what it…
In an age of extremes people are yearning for the simple life, in what appears to be ever growing numbers. Barely a day goes by…
Families have fallen out over far less, but the border wars between the counties of Cornwall and Devon over who invented the pasty and the…