Making the world a little sweeter one pastry tip at at time.
If you’ve ever wanted a coffee plantation to call your own, Schneider Industries has two working coffee plantations for auction. The first property is located in La Liberdad, San Salvador, and it is a complete coffee plantation set on just over ten acres. The second is located in Sonsonate, …read more
Auction: The Corner Ice Cream Shoppe This auction is conducted by Bob King Auctions, and includes many frozen dessert equipment pieces, such as display cases and mixers. If you have cash on hand for the items you want, there is a 2% discount for payment …read more
Presented by Boston After Six, the Boston Pastry Rendezvous happens on November 2, 6-11PM at the Back Bay Events Center. Sample pastries and start the holiday shopping sweetly. Tickets are 35.00 at Eventbrite, but for a limited time they are available at 43% off (20.00 …read more
Think angel food cake is a recent invention? Well, you’d be thinking wrong. Angel food cake has been around a very long time, and the author of The American Pastry Cook, Jessup Whitehead, who goes into detail about its origins way back in 1894, and …read more
Celebrate it by making a dessert! What is a dessert? Basically, anything that you serve at the end of the meal. It could be baked, frozen, fresh, or warmed. It could also be something not even remotely sweet, like different cheeses, or even nuts and …read more
The thought of mixing politics and bake sales is a first for me. Here’s the premise: A bake sale where prices for the pastry, baked goods, and other offerings are based on the student’s sex and race, and is a protest for an affirmative action. According to the events …read more
Updated! As of April, 2015 🙂 The list sure keeps growing. The pastry field has exploded, as evidenced by the many lively dessert, baking, and pastry related shows on TV now. Here are several to check out, with direct links to their webpages. Have I …read more
No matter where you are in the world, there is a bakery tradeshow in your area. Here are some for the month of October: Modern Bakery Moscow (Russia) 17th Annual International Trade Fair for Bakery & Confectionery specializing in the Russian maket Will be held on October …read more
The trade show for the specialty coffee industry will be in Seattle, WA on September 23 – 25, 2011. The event will be at the Washington State Convention Center in Seattle. Registration is now $30.00, and can be done online, on on-site when you arrive. …read more
We all know baking something at the proper temperature is a good thing. But how do you convert a temperture in Celsius if it is in Fahrenheit, or in Fahrenheit if it is Celsius? A simple conversion can be done online through the many different …read more