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After a year of construction, Bread Alone has reopened its flagship Boiceville location, the nation's first carbon-neutral bakery and cafe. In addition to wood-fired hearth breads and pastries, the cafe will serve up hot coffee and a full breakfast and lunch menu.

I received a copy of Daniel Leader's Living Bread for Christmas this year. While it contains 50-plus formulae for breads, Leader seems more focused on the stories of the grains, the growers, the millers, and the bakers he encountered in Europe. That's all good and makes for an engaging read, since he is obviously passionate about his subjects. I would, however, strongly

Shell Abandons Push for Oil Spill Case to Be Heard in Nigeria Todd Gillespie and Laura Hurst, Bloomberg News A Shell logo sits on a totem sign at a Royal Dutch Shell Plc fuel filling station in Rayleigh, U.K., on Wednesday, Sept. 30, 2020. Royal Dutch Shell Plc will cut as many as 9,000 jobs as Covid-19 accelerates a company-wide restructuring into low-carbon energy. Photographer: Chris Ratcliffe/Bloomberg , Bloomberg (Bloomberg) -- Royal Dutc...

In 2007, tea pluckers on a Unilever plantation were brutally attacked in the midst of ethnical violence triggered by a contested presidential election. As the company failed to protect them despite clear warning signs of impending violence, the victims are now taking it to court to demand reparations

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — State and local officials are mobilizing efforts to stave off the negative impact of Koffee Kup’s decision to shutter its Vermont operations, including the closure of its Brattleboro subsidiary, Vermont Bread Company, that eliminated more than 90 local jobs. The closures were announced suddenly on Monday. According to a Tuesday news release from Dorset Partners, which specializes in “turnaround management and acqu...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — Koffee Kup and its subsidiary in Brattleboro, Vermont Bread Company, were shuttered Monday morning, resulting in a loss of more than 90 local jobs. According to a Tuesday news release from Dorset Partners, which specializes in “turnaround management and acquisitions,” Koffee Kup had been struggling to make ends meet for the past four years. “For each of the last four years Koffee Kup has suffered substantial ...

Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   BRATTLEBORO — State and local officials are mobilizing efforts to stave off the negative impact of Koffee Kup’s decision to shutter its Vermont operations, including the closure of its Brattleboro subsidiary, Vermont Bread Company, that eliminated more than 90 local jobs. The closures were announced suddenly on Monday. According to a Tuesday news release from Dorset Partners, which specializes in “turnaround management and acqu...

headupinclouds (ruis)reikaleipa I stopped by the Grow NY grain stand at the local farmers market and picked up the lone bag of Frederick soft white wheat berries they had and a few bags of stone-ground flour from Farmer Ground and Small Valley Farm so I could sample some local wheat varieties and try a few bakes with professionally milled whole grain flour for comparison with Mockmilled flour.  Larger bags of wheat berries can be ordered for pick up in advance.  I am interested in the Renan f...

Kenyan Tea Workers Demand Reparations From Unilever For Failing to Protect Them From Attacks Tea pluckers say the brutal attacks were "foreseeable" but the household-goods giant failed to protect them. Representative image. A boy standing by houses on a tea plantation near Nairob, Kenya. Photo: Bryon Lippincott/Flickr CC BY NC ND 2.0 World17/Mar/2021 At least four men armed with machetes and clubs broke into Anne Johnson’s home. They forced her husband and 11-year-old son into the bedroom ...

Britain's Supreme Court ruled on Friday that more than 40,000 people in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria can make pollution claims against Anglo-Dutch energy g