Bakery

PreGel AMERICA and the PreGel Professional Training Center are excited to unveil a new online video channel with 18 never before seen instructional how-to dessert videos. The PreGel Channel is a new section on www.pregelamerica.com and will host all of the videos produced by PreGel. …

Fans found it throughout Phoenix, including at Whole Foods, AJ's Fine Foods, the Boulders, Ritz-Carlton, Royal Palms, Luci's Healthy Marketplace in central Phoenix and at Simply Bread's first headquarters. But Simply Bread, based in Chandler, closed abruptly in February. What began with popularity and promise deteriorated into a flurry of lawsuits, a threatened foreclosure, anger, recriminations and a restraining order. …

Wheat crops in the U.S. Great Plains are showing signs that production may plunge more than the government forecast last week as hot weather and a lack of rain erode plant quality and force farmers to harvest early. …

Building on the success of the gluten-free products it already carries, Fresh & Easy Neighborhood Market is expanding its range of gluten-free products and creating additional displays to highlight them in stores. Gluten-free items have always been among the most frequently requested products by customers and in January 2010, Fresh & Easy introduced more gluten-free items, created a labeling system for the products and added a list of all gluten-free products on its website: www.freshandeasy.com/glutenfree. …

Ralcorp Frozen Bakery Products is rolling out a new video series that demonstrates its Cottage Bakery brand True Artisan bread’s performance superiority in side-by-side comparisons to non-artisan breads. …