German baking traditions, Asheville food culture, and stories from our micro bakery.
Mary's mom is visiting from Germany for the first time since Mary moved to America, and she has always wanted to see an American Indian Summer. The leaves are obliging. Here's how the season actually moves.
Star Coins at our market stand are built on quark-oil dough, a German bakery staple with a taste my American palate can't quite place. Here's what makes it different.
We sell Apple Strudel and Apple Streusel side by side, and people mix them up constantly, including myself. A quick field guide to strudel, streusel, and striezel.
Some of our cakes are gluten-free and some are not. That is a choice. We will not compromise what makes a German cake good just to put a label on it.
A customer in Asheville asked for a chocolate birthday cake. I knew the one. But it got me thinking about how German birthdays are different here, starting with the fact that you are expected to bring your own cake.
Kaffee und Kuchen is the German afternoon tradition of coffee and cake — a daily ritual at 3pm that most Americans have never heard of. It's why our bakery is named 3pm, and it shaped the lighter, less-sweet style of German baking.
I had five minutes at SciPy 2026 to tell a room full of data scientists what it is like running a two-person German bakery with open-source technology. The response surprised me.
We moved to Asheville not knowing anyone. Six months of running a bakery at the farmers market changed the way we connect with this city.
A farmers market bakery built an open-source Python library for production planning and recipe costing. Here is a quick look at wright and why we released it.
Need a whole German Cheesecake for a birthday or a tray of Spinach Tartlets for a party? We take custom orders by email or at the market, and we can deliver in the greater Asheville area.
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.