Headliners: EDIBLE BOSTON, JEREME'S LEAVING, and JACKIE AND SARAH'S HANDRWITING!

GONE, JEREME, GONE

Employee and baker, Prince Jereme of the Night Bake, is heading off to other pastures. By the time you get this, he will have left already, but let's all thank him for working the lonely night shift since last April. He will be missed, as the systems he created here will be used for years to come. Here's one of his more important flowcharts:

So, to make that lonely night shift not so much, we've hired on two new bakers to take his place, Sara and Maggie. As soon as they stop saying "Oh, snap!" in inappropriate contexts, we'll get their info in the Employees section.

EDIBLE BOSTON

Shortly after the birth of our daughter (The day before St. Patrick's Day, remember? Did you even read the Welcome page? Go back and read it! I wrote it for you!), I decided that to avoid being trapped in a position where I had to work in the night shift for the rest of my life, I had to think outside the box. Create something new and interesting. After playing with the ideas of going to business school, starting a goat farm, being an editor at Down East Magazine, making local prosciutto, and getting into marketing and advertising, I decided to work on starting a local food magazine. I drove around to interesting spots throughout Maine, wrote articles on Sullivan Harbor Smoked Salmon and Townline Farm Organic Venison, decided on a name, designed the cover, made up mock issues, etc., pretty much all of the fun things without even thinking about the real issues involved in putting together such a publication.

So it was a good thing that one day, Jackie said to me these exact words: "Let's just move to Massachusetts and open a bakery." Done and done. It was also a good thing because a food magazine that fit the exact specifications of my dream 'zine was already coming out.

Edible Boston (available for FREE at the bakery!) is a fantastic publication that highlights local producers and products from around Essex, Middlesex, Worcester, Suffolk, and Norfolk counties. It's part of Edible Communities, which promotes the publication of local magazines in local communities under the name "Edible (your community here)." It's an awesome idea to promote local eating in many areas throughout the country, and the Edible Boston version is bold and real and beautifully put together.
THE DYNAMIC/ILLEGIBLE DUO

Jackie and Sarah make a great pastry team. All those cakes, croissants, tarts, and sticky buns you come in to buy are pretty much their creations. Their secret? Keep their recipes away from the prying eyes of competitors by making them completely unintelligible to eyes other than their own. I have no idea how to read any of their recipes - that's why I do bread. Here's an example of a recipe Jackie was working from the other day:

Seriously. Part of my senior project in school was to decipher the notorious chicken-scratch of American composer Charles Ives; I have no clue what do do with this.