Yellow Corn Tortillas

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.

Challah Close Up

Can you think of a more satisfying combination?

News & Happenings

Toast + Taste Hot Bread Kitchen

HBK Toast + Taste

Hot Bread Kitchen’s Junior Board the Kitchen Cabinet is hosting a Toast + Taste cocktail fundraiser on June 13, 2013 from 8-11pm at Ramscale Studios on 463 West Street. This event will feature delicious cocktails, breads from Hot Bread Kitchen as well as samples from HBK Incubates members Broadway Baker and Nafi’s Hot Pepper Condiments. …continue reading

Hot Bread Kitchen Short

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We are really excited to share this short video about Hot Bread Kitchen created by photographer and videographer William Geddes. Geddes goes behind the scenes of our professional baking training program to talk with our Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Jessamyn W. Rodriguez and Chief Bread Officer Ben Hershberger about why Hot Bread Kitchen is more …continue reading

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

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