Less than six months after plans were announced for The Bakery Society Pittsburgh, this bakery business incubator has welcomed its first class of Bakers-in-Residence. The cohort of entrepreneurial chefs will spend the next 18 months learning and making at The Bakery Society’s headquarters in Mt. Oliver.
Jewel Edwards, one of the four new full-time students, describes the program as exactly the kind of support that was missing for local chefs for so many years.
“When I was in school, we became a little discouraged because we had instructors telling us that Pittsburgh wasn’t a market for scratch baking and you might as well relocate,” she told NEXTpittsburgh.
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