Baking

Baker David Buelens puts the baguettes into a basket at a bakery, in Versailles, west of Paris, Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2022. 

A bakers’ rebellion looms in France to defend baguettes

Due to soaring electricity costs, bakers in France can’t afford to turn on their ovens to bake bread. They’re demanding help from the government and threatening the unthinkable — to turn off their ovens.

Leensa Ahmed, CEO of Green Garden Bakery

Teen-run bakery brings healthy food and job training to Minneapolis

Food

Halloween #Goals: Pastry Edition

Arts, Culture & Media

If You’re Reading This It’s Too Cake: Drake Lyrics in Frosting

Arts, Culture & Media

Now We’re Cooking with Math

Arts, Culture & Media
Cakes

Pi is delicious — and other math lessons you’ll be happy to learn

Arts

Eugenia Cheng is on a mission to make math relatable — using dessert

True love cake by baker Samantha Seneviratne. Permission from "The New Sugar and Spice," by Samantha Seneviratne, copyright 2015, published by Ten Speed Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

Too sweet? This baker has figured out how to balance sugar and spice.

Culture

New York-based baker Samantha Seneviratne grew up with cookies and brownies and sticky buns. But as a baker, she yearned to make things that are a little less sweet and cloying. She found the answer in her Sri Lankan heritage.

Cookies

Baking great cookies is not just an art. It’s science

Food

At this time of year, just about everybody is baking cookies (that is, if they’re not making latkes, but that’s another story). How many times have you stuck a batch of cookies in the oven only to have them emerge nothing like you imagined? Understanding the science behind the perfect cookie could help preserve your baking reputation.

Sweet Paul's Almond Buns.

Why coffee and almond buns mean childhood for this Norwegian author

Lifestyle & Belief

Paul Lowe grew up in Oslo, Norway baking cakes with his grandmother and great aunt. Now, he lives in New York and is famous for his baked treats, like his almond bun recipe. In fact, he’s known online as “Sweet Paul.” Paul Lowe grew up in Oslo, Norway baking cakes with his grandmother and great aunt. Now, he lives in New York and is famous for his baked treats, like his almond bun recipe. In fact, he’s known online as “Sweet Paul.”

Spanish baker upends system by slashing price of bread by 80 percent

In Spain, a loaf of bread has typically cost a euro. But times are tough there, and one baker in the Valencia region decided to slash the price to just 20 euro cents. In so doing, he’s upended the system, and captured a whole bunch of new customers at the same time.