The Baking Industry, Revisited
After trashing bakers the other day, here’s a positive development in the protean world of turning flour, sugar and a disgusting fungus (yeast) into edible stuff. A commercial bakery in my neighborhood, Essential Baking, is expanding into the Fremont district, having purchased the cool brick building formerly occupied by Redhook Brewing. Redhook brewed at the site for 10 - 15 years before IPO-driven expansion forced them to build a bigger facility out in the suburbs (boo!) near Woodinville. Essential plans to make chocolate there from scratch, among other things. My wife and I often walk to Fremont to shop for cds at Sonic Boom Records, and imbibe margaritas at El Camino, and now the chocoholic will be scheduling one more stop there.
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/122838_chocolate21.html
