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Hot Bread Kitchen is more than a bakery.

Hot Bread Kitchen Baking

It’s a social enterprise that enhances the future for foreign-born women while preserving baking traditions.

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We offer fresh breads baked with traditional recipes from around the world. We use local grains and organic ingredients.

Artisan Baking Center

Hot Bread Kitchen makes great bread and builds better lives for people who are an integral part of the city’s future.

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Can you think of a more satisfying combination?

News & Happenings

Movers, Shakers and Bakers

Newsday

“Hot Bread Kitchen at La Marqueta in Spanish Harlem..is breaking down the old-world gender barrier, as women from Mexico, South America and Africa train to be bakers – jobs traditionally held by men.” Hot Bread Kitchen’s bakery training is profiled in Newsday on May 8th, 2013. Read the complete article as a pdf, Hot Bread Newsday …continue reading

Hot Bread Kitchen Helps Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Rise to the Top

Our incubator program

“HBK Incubates has helped 36 food businesses to start up, selling everything from cookies to cake pops, and seasoning to tamales.” American Express Open Forum looks into how Hot Bread Kitchen’s business support program, HBK Incubates enables businesses like NY Cake Pops and Taste of Ethiopia to formalize and grow. Read the complete article as …continue reading

Celebrate Easter with Hot Cross Buns

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Just for Easter, Hot Bread Kitchen is offering an updated version of traditional Hot Cross Buns. Made with local Feather Ridge Farm eggs, our Hot Cross Buns have a rich dough filled with cherries and raisins. The cross on top is made with a not-too-sweet frosting with a hint of vanilla. Starting March, 27, 2013, our …continue reading

We’re Hiring: Operations Director

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To meet our ambitious growth goals, prepare us for replication, and ensure the high quality of our products, we have created the new position of Operations Director.  Reporting to the CEO, the Operations Director will be responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of Hot Bread Kitchen.  He or She will be expected to smartly drive …continue reading

Our Awards and Accolades

2009 NYC Small Business of the Year Snail of Approval, Slow Food NYC Echoing Green Recipient of the 2007 Eileen Fisher Grant for Women Entrepreneurs