Bakery

Satin Fine Foods is now collaborating with Vinny Buzzetta, 22 year-old Executive Pastry Chef and Owner of “The Cake Artist”, who quickly gained national fame with WE tv’s reality show Staten Island Cakes. …

In light of Puratos Corporation’s continued strong sales growth in the U.S.A, the company will break ground this month for the construction of a new manufacturing facility in Pennsauken (New Jersey). Here the company will produce a variety of bakery improvers, bases, mixes, bio-fermented sourdoughs and finishers, including icings, glazes and fruit & cream fillings. …

Chef Pierre Zimmermann, World Baking Champion and Chef Instructor at The French Pastry School of Kennedy-King College, was named one of 2011’s Top Ten Bakers in the October issue of Dessert Professional Magazine. Chef Pierre Zimmermann joined the school last year as a full-time Chef Instructor in the new Artisanal Baking Course, L’Art de la Boulangerie, which offers hands-on training to students who wish to enter the time-honored profession. …

In the baking industry, where ingredient and labor costs continue to escalate, bakers are constantly looking for new technology that will lower their overall operating costs to increase their competitiveness in the marketplace. And Vineland, New Jersey based Omni Baking Company proved no exception when it turned to Linde North America, the U.S. affiliate of The Linde Group, for a solution. …

Bread dates back to the Neolithic era and was one of the first man-made foods that existed, rightly earning it the “staff of life” moniker. Once discovered, bread quickly became a part of everyday life, with most cultures creating their own bread-making traditions and developing hundreds of types of breads that can still be enjoyed today. Even now, bread remains just as important to our diet and culture as it was centuries ago. …