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Los Angeles Magazine puts The Sensitive Baker in the “Winners’ Circle”
Sunday, October 21, 2007 posted by
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We feel like we’ve just won the lottery! This is unbelievable. This November, Los Angeles Magazine’s Food Lover’s Guide features “Local Heroes,” sourcing the best locally produced food.
On page 151, “Toasts of the Town,” there’s a list of nine bakeries with photos of nine “of our favorite loaves” and — what’s that at the top of the page? “Divinely gluten free”!?! OUR FOCACCIA!?!
And just look at who else is on that list - Le Pain Quotidien, BreadBar, La Maison du Pain…. These are prestigious bakeries! (Actually, the woman from La Maison du Pain visited us one day. She’s very sweet - and it turns out she also bakes for Sophie’s Produce — she makes the little rolls for their non-gf sandwiches. Small world.)
Honestly; it’s only luck that we were even considered for such a list. I’m sure it’s just that they wanted to include a gluten-free option, and it had to be local, and we’re the only gluten-free bakery within 200 miles. But still, what luck! Thank God! And thank you, Margot - may you have a long and satisfying life! {Amen!}
February 29th, 2008 at 9:20 am
[...] These days, thank G-d, the breads and cakes are all coming out consistently wonderful. We did take some things off the menu, either because they could not be made consistently wonderful or because they didn’t stay wonderful in your freezer. Like that focaccia. When it was good, it was incredible. (It’s the bread they featured in Los Angeles Magazine.) But some mornings, it wasn’t even fit for breadcrumbs. We’d sell what was edible, and hold up online orders waiting for more, and never really figured out why sometimes in the very same batch, one tray would be a disaster and another tray heaven. [...]