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15 Nov BREAD IS NOT DEAD: BLACK SEED BAGELS

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Hand-Rolled and Wood-Fired -- not sushi  and not pizza. Bagels. Montreal meets New York.  Bagels that look back to baking as an artisanal craft,  achieving perfection in crispness, density and flavor.  At Black Seed the art of bread is not dead -- these may be...

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13 Feb BREAD IS NOT DEAD: LARMOR PLAGE, BRITTANY

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A kouign-amann, not to be confused with former United Nations Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, is perhaps the most buttery of bakes ever concocted.  While Mr. Annan arrives by way of Ghana, this round breaded wonder traces its origin to the French Bretagne coast.   No one's exactly...

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04 Jun BREAD IS NOT DEAD: BIEN CUIT, BROOKLYN

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There's lots to be said when things are well done.  Make that well done in French, as in just right and, so goes the aptly named BIEN CUIT bakery-cafe that you'd expect to find in the countryside of France and not in the film set...

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16 Mar THE MAPPETITE MILE: A DAY IN DELRAY

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When my parents bought their apartment on Delray Beach in South Florida there wasn't much to this town but for a sleepy stretch of Atlantic Avenue that started at the beach and ran due west - a standard formula for many a seaside Floridian town. In...

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01 Nov The EATORIALIST: CUPCAKE CRACK & CRUMBS

Posted at 12:43h in Bakery, New York City, The EATORIALIST by admin 0 Comments
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CRUMBS BAKE SHOP, is a bakery that ain't.  Ain't what you ask? Ain't a bakery because nothing, I repeat, nothing is ever  baked at your local Crumbs Bake Shop. In the world of  bakery theme park-like attractions there is something very satisfying to the nostalgia-minded Sensurround you...

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17 Jan The MAPPETITE MILE: BEYOND PORTOBELLO ROAD

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No trip too long for the real PASTEL DE NATA or, in English speaks, a Portuguese custard filled pastry cup. A ten minute walk past the northern reaches of Portobello Road and you end up at the GOLBORNE Road street market. Among a handful of...

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