Puff, the magic (Kosher) pastry
The cupcake. The macaron. And now the nuage cake.
The cupcake. The macaron. And now the nuage cake.
Baker Ran Zimon leads a visitor through the doorway separating the cafe area from the kitchen of Bread Lounge, his neighborhood bakery in the Arts District downtown. The temperature suddenly jumps at least 10 degrees. “It reminds me of Israel,” Zimon says with a sly smile.
Schwartz Bakery, a kosher bakery and caterer with six retail locations across Los Angeles, has dropped the Rabbinical Council of California (RCC) as its kosher certifier.
Craving a kosher cupcake? Magnolia Bakery is cooking up the cure. Now open at 8389 W. Third St., this chic New York transplant looks to quickly become part of the Los Angeles Jewish community. Famous for its pastel-colored cupcakes, fresh-from-the-oven pies and homemade icebox cakes, the stylish sweet shop carries more than 60 products — all of which carry a heksher.
No matter how you serve up your wedding, you ultimately want your guests to leave with a good taste in their mouths
OK, mom, so what part of eating that cheesecake is making you feel guilty? If you fear that little bubbela is annoying the other customers in the bakery, your worries are over.
Southern Californians can travel from Pharaoh\’s palace to Midwestern wheat fields to a rain forest — all without leaving Westwood.
A wall of neatly coiffed ladies charges up to the counter to place their orders for baked goods on one of the last days before the holidays and one of the last days before Brown\’s Bakery in North Hollywood closes its doors forever. Some of the customers have been buying their cakes, cookies and bread here for as long as the bakery has been open, and that\’s 42 years. Some have been Brown\’s customers even longer, when it was Brown Brothers Bakery on Wilshire Boulevard; some for longer still, when Brown\’s was in the Bronx, during the war.
By deciding to introduce meat products into its formerly all-dairy outlets, Noah\’s Bagels has provoked a strong response from observant Jewish noshers