Member News

Many of our members are featured in their local and national press.

• Watch the crew at Semifreddi's in Alameda, CA, at work in this lively You Tube video.
   
• Mike Zakowski talks about bread baking in a You Tube video. Watch it here.
   
• Red Hen Baking Company was mentioned in the July 2011 issue of Travel + Leisure Magazine in an article where chefs from 50 states and the District of Columbia chose their favorite places to eat. See it here.
   

• Peter Yuen is one of 20 international bakers from five continents whose formulas are included in a new cookbook, Pains Autour du Monde (Breads Around the World), published in French and English by The Association of Bread Ambassadors.

• Jeffrey Hamelman, George DePasquale, Scott Mangold, and Caryn Jarvis are mentioned in an article about The Kneading Conference West in the Skagit Valley Herald, August 7, 2011. Read it here.
   

• William Leaman’s formula for Chocolate Raspberry Mousse Domes is spotlighted in “Regional Showcase,” Pastry & Baking North America, Volume 5, Issue 3.

• Starter Bakery's kouign amann was the focus in Tasting Table San Francisco. Read the article here.
   
• Manderfield's Home Bakery in Wisconsin has won a 2011 Leadership Award in Merchandising from Modern Baking. Read about it here.
   
• The Guild-Wide Bakery Open House and Bennison's Bakery were mentioned in Modern Baking's July issue. Read more.
   
• Jory Downer was interviewed by Chicago Magazine in "Seven Signs a Baguette is Really Artisanal." Bennison's Bakery and the Floriole Café and Bakery in Chicago was mentioned as a place to buy artisan bread. Read the article here.
   
• Amber Lambke and The Kneading Conference were featured in Maine magazine in July 2011. Read more here.
   
• Michael Rhoads of Bread Bakers Guild Team USA was profiled in the June issue of Baking Buyer, page 23.
   
• Mamadou Mbaye of Mamadou's Artisan Bakery was featured in an article in the Winchester (MA) Patch. Read more here.
   
• Kevin and Heather Knight of Anjou Bakery were interviewed in the Wenatchee (WA) World. Read the article here.
   
• Jeff Yankellow was included iin the Arizona Central's list of "30 Tastemakers Who Have Led the Phoenix Area Food Revolution." Read more.
   
• Jessamyn Rodriguez was profiled in a video series entitled “NYC Women: Make it Here, Make it Happen.” On each day of March, a different woman was featured in a one-minute video in celebration of Women’s History Month. View her video here. 
   
• Dara Reimers was the subject of "Rising to the Occasion:  Auburn Baker Puts the Art in Artisan Baking,” in the Lewiston Sun Journal on March 27. Read more.
   
• William Leaman of Bakery Nouveau in Seattle, WA, was interviewed in the Puget Sound Business Journal. Read it here.
   
• Didier Rosada and Ciril Hitz taught workshops at NAIT in Edmonton, AB, in June. Read about it here.
   
• Solveig Tofte and her new Minneapolis bakery, Sun Street Breads, were the focus of an article in Citypages. Read it here.
   
• Declan Ryan of Arbutus Bread in Cork, Ireland, was appointed by Cork City Hall as press corps spokesperson for the Artisan Food Producers during Queen Elizabeth II's visit to Cork in May 2011.
   
• Orange Boot Bakery, Regina, SK, has been named Best Bakery by the Regina Prairie Dog in a local reader poll, "Best in Food 2011." Read more.
   
• Starter Bakery, Brian Wood's new bakery in Oakland, CA, was highlighted in SF Foodie on May 3. Read it here.