Recipe: Favorite Fudge Birthday Cake
Are you a Designated Birthday Cake Baker (DBCB)?
The person who, every time someone in the office has a birthday, receives the “nomination” to make the cake?
Not only are you nominated – you run unopposed, right?
Recipe: Cake-Pan Cake
It was 20 years ago this month I moved from Maine to New Hampshire, found a job at King Arthur Flour across the river in Vermont… and discovered the best company in the world.
Frank and Brinna Sands owned King Arthur Flour back in 1990, when I arrived. Frank’s family had been involved with the business since the early 1800s; generations of Sands men had sold King Arthur Flour, headed the company as president or, from 1932 to 1996, owned it outright.
In 1996, without a next generation of Sands family to take over, Frank and Brinna sold the company to the employees. King Arthur is now 100% employee-owned. (more…)
“Help!”
That was the cry coming from my colleagues on King Arthur’s merchandising team yesterday.
“We love these little bakers, but they’re only online, not in the catalogue; and no one is SEEING them! Could you…?”
“Do a blog?” I finished the sentence for them. “Well, you KNOW I’m not one of those fussy bakers. Ummm…” (more…)
