La Brea Bakery has announced the return of two limited-time offerings for the holiday season. Cranberry Walnut Loaf features toasted walnuts and tart, slightly sweet cranberries, while Take & Bake Holiday Savory Rolls are reminiscent of stuffing, as these savory rolls are full of sage, celery, thyme and black and white pepper.
Grupo Bimbo SAB de CV will donate 6.8 million slices of bread to food banks around the world after holding the seventh edition of its Bimbo Global Race, which attracted 341, 000 participants.
Gluten-free flours, keto-friendly ingredients and ancient grains all have boosted bread sales in past years. What’s next? How about seaweed that gives bread nutritional and environmental benefits.
“Can real artisan bread be made to scale? This is a question I get all the time from bake shops that have a handful of people to companies that employ hundreds,” said John Giacoio, vice president of sales, Rheon USA. “What they don’t understand is that this question is relative to what they are doing at the moment.”
As Flowers Foods, Thomasville, Ga., has grown its Dave’s Killer Bread (DKB) business, the company has looked for bakeries that can take on production to support the brand’s blossoming popularity.
The average price paid for white pan bread increased 4.1¢ per lb in August, according to the latest data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the US Department of Labor.
The Real Bread Campaign in the United Kingdom is calling for a legal definition of sourdough bread and making consumers aware of what it calls “sourfaux.”