By Brett DeNeve:
Fancy & Delicious Bakery turned off its ovens at the end of last summer’s bread share, but three former F&D bakers’ passion for bread, or in this case artisan bread, has been rekindled in the form of a new bread venue; The BreadHive Worker Cooperative Bakery. The Bakery is reaching out to grow support as they plan to be fully operational and have Grendel, a three deck stainless steel steam injection oven so big that its previous owners priced it knowing they would play no part in relocating the beast, doing what it does best by the end of the year. They are founded on quality bread baking, cooperative ethics and the Buffalo bread community we all know and love.
The menu will hold artisan bread rolls, sourdough bagels (boiled, not steamed), and an innovative line of granola that will be sure to stretch your tastebuds; coconut cameron cashew for example. Not only will these products be available at your favorite restaurants, stores, and farmer’s markets, but The Breadhive is offering a bread share program as well, allowing for some quality interaction between baker and consumer, as it should be.
To get your hands on some bread, bagel, and/or granola share, just follow the link. BreadHive will email you about pickups, prices, and anything else you need to know.
*Enter Rant*
No offense to that employee staffed behind the glass counter of the closest nationwide chain food market who hands us what we’ve requested, we’ve all been there or at least known someone who has, but the relationship between the food we love to eat and those who love to make it and hear we genuinely enjoyed it is one that should be valued more in our society as a whole. On that note, I will fight the urges to continue this rant on the foundation that I live in a city that understands the importance of this relationship. Thanks Buffalo, you get it.
*Fin*
I only needed a few waves of web surfing from the shore that is their main website to see that these bakers truly enjoy what they do. Their Pinterest,for example, has a still of Emily Stewart and Allison Ewing at the Artisan Bread Fair in Skowhegan, ME four weeks ago. Their Twitter has some shots of Stewart interning with Small World Food Co., a worker coop bakery/fermentary based out of Rochester and sporting a mission statement concerned with fresh ingredients from local organic farms. Feel free to check out their main website for links to their other social media sites as well.
The third girl in this equation, Tori Kuper, isn’t featured in their most recent social media posts, possibly do to her engagement plans! Kuper will be marrying a gentleman named Henry Raess, both of whom are very active in the worker coop movement, this Sunday. Congrats!
Can you imagine the amount of bread that is going to be at this wedding?
Connect with The Breadhive on any of their social media outlets, get involved in some bread/bagel/granola share and join us on this journey to opening day.