Eugene, OR's Elegant Elephant Baking Co. – Free Of Gluten, Filled With Flavor

In a commissary kitchen she rents from Hummingbird Wholesale, Scarola and her staff of 13 employees roll out the dough for an impressive lineup of baked goods, sold wholesale and stocked in various local food stores; at Lane County Farmers’ Market in season; and also from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Tuesday through Friday at her food truck parked in the west lot at the Hummingbird site.

Study 'Artisan Breadmaking And Heritage Grains' At The School Of The New American Farmstead

February 23, 2017 Sterling College

They say man does not live by bread alone, but if the bread is good enough, one could certainly try. Author, teacher, and baker Richard Miscovich will be sharing his burning passions for both artisan breadmaking and heritage grains at the School of the New American Farmstead.

Family Recipe Fuels Startup Poppy's Cheesecake's Business

Poppy’s Cheesecake is named for Tom Ginis’ father Harry, a longtime maître d’ at New York’s fashionable Barbizon-Plaza Hotel; he was dubbed “Poppy” by his grandchildren, who were not able to pronounce the Greek “Papou.” (The elder Ginis died in 2005 at 84.) While Ginis would not share the specifics of the family recipe, he highlighted a key difference between his cheesecake and the supermarket variety.

Fighting Food Waste With Taxes

“People will buy more food they are going to eat so they won’t have to go back to the store again,” says Michael Wetzstein of Purdue University, “but they aren’t thinking about the issues surrounding food waste.”

Cuomo Blocks New York City’s Plastic Bag Fee

February 23, 2017 Scott Fallon , The Record

Efforts to keep plastic bags from polluting the region’s waterways took a significant step back late Tuesday when New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo blocked New York City’s 5-cent bag fee just hours before it was to take effect.