Bakery

Liz Brown, who started Wide Awake Bakery, which is offering a bread CSA, said Ithaca consumers understand how the model works. “It’s a community model, in a way that conventional retail can never be,” she said, noting that her flour is grown and milled locally and her bread cooked fresh to order. …

Building a new line of products around Dahls brother, Dave, who was a violent felon with 15 years of hard time behind him, brought Nature Bake explosive growth. …

Big Sky Bread Company, which has been baking its whole-grain breads in Mountain Brook Village since 1994, is closing that bakery and moving all of its operations to its Pelham location. Fans of Big Sky’s best-selling three-seed whole-wheat bread and its original honey-almond granola still will be able to find those and other products at grocery stores all around Birmingham. …

Fewer working people, a manufacturers building being vacated and a future reduction in tax revenue are among the consequences area leaders are facing now that a major employer is ceasing production. …

Puratos has developed Puraslim: a fat alternative that improves the nutritional values of breads and cakes by lowering calories and fat while keeping the taste. In blind taste tests consumers were satisfied with reduced fat products, and the buying intention increased significantly when additional information was given on the lower fat content. …