Fika Table News Today

Online bakeries have boomed in the past year.  As the pandemic pushed people indoors and away from their everyday outings, a crop of web-based baking businesses opened, offering everything from Thai desserts to sourdough bread for delivery. Some of these businesses are based in homes and sell under cottage law. Others rent commercial kitchen space from places like Wingman Kitchens, which is home to  Sweet Charli Girl (sweetcharligirl.com), which makes the most amazing gluten-free cookies n c...

Laura Galos great grandmother arrived in the United States from Finland the year before the last pandemic. It was 1917, and she brought with her several Finnish baking traditions that the family kept alive when Galos, the founder of a new Nordic baking company, was a girl growing up in the Northeast.  For example, her grandmother, Lois — "hands down my favorite person"  — loved to bake the familys pulla bread, a buttery cardamom loaf that was the first thing that Galos remembers baking....