WHO SHE IS Jessica Best, owner of Birdies Bread Co., remembers the exact moment she fell in love with sourdough. After her culinary training, she began working at a bakery in St. John’s, Newfoundland. On her first day, Best saw the bread coming out after baking. “Making sourdough is such an intimate process,” she says. […]
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Two Dumb Vegans’ brain food
Two Dumb Vegans Historic Farmers’ Market, 1496 Lower Water Street Saturdays, 7am-1pm When Michael Grove and Kerry Sharp begin the baking process for their bigger-than-your-hand, quadruple-layered cinnamon rolls, a sort of routine settles in: Singing (lots of it), cinnamon-dousing (even more of it) and layering up rectangles of buttery-yet-butter-free dough. “We found ourselves harmonizing all […]
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Shop this: Maker Mode Aprons
“It’s so weird how it started. I got bored from making soap one day and started making these aprons,” says Sarah Armstrong, the artist behind Bad Mouth Soap and now half of Maker Mode Aprons. Her short-lived stint of boredom—and inspiration from a couple of trips to Japan—drove her to start noodling with a sewing […]
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I did it all for the cookie
Emma Adamski’s holiday eating traditions include her mom’s butter tarts and her family uniform—”buffet pants”—but wacky, hand-crafted sugar cookies? Not so much. A cook, not baker, by nature, Adamski is one-half Manual Food & Drink Co. (the other half is her other half, Sonny Adamski), maker of some of the most beautiful, artistic desserts in […]
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Everyone loves Halifaxcakes.com
For her daughter’s first birthday, Nanette Shroff went to Costco to buy a cake and went online to see what other people were doing to decorate them. She wasn’t impressed. “You see what other people have done and go, ‘I could do that.’ My first goal was to be the mom who decorated her own […]