German baking traditions, Asheville food culture, and stories from our micro bakery.
When a single market day means baking across five or six different recipes, the grocery list gets complicated fast. Here's how we built a system that turns a free-text bake plan into an organized shopping list in a matter of moments.
A year ago we walked through the North Asheville Farmers Market as visitors, wondering if this could be our home. We had no idea we'd leave with the seed of a business.
In Germany, pudding powder and vanilla sugar are pantry staples, the kind every Oma makes herself. When I moved to the US and read the ingredient lists on the American versions, I knew we'd have to make our own.
My wife Mary sent me to a German grocery store for quark. I had no idea what I was looking for. Now it's the reason our cheesecake is different from every other bakery in Asheville.