News
News of HBK’s New Head Baker Makes The New York Times
Hot Bread Kitchen has hired Master Baker Ben Hershberger to serve as the Head Baker and Instructor for our bakery training program. Most recently, Hershberger has worked as the Head Baker at world-renowned restaurant Per Se and Bouchon Bakery. News of his move to Hot Bread Kitchen was covered in today’s issue of the New York Times in an article written by Florence Fabricant.
Read the complete article as a PDF published in the New York Times May 15, 2012.
HBK in DNAinfo
Hot Bread Kitchen, Community Liaison Beatriz Mieses-Hernandez and CEO Jessamyn Rodriguez were interviewed by local Manhattan news site DNAinfo. In the article, Mieses-Hernandez announces Hot Bread Kitchen’s new Low Income Food Entrepreneur(LIFE) program. Designed to support culinary entrepreneurs producing out of their home, LIFE will cover the cost of incorporation and insurance to help these entrepreneurs move into our licensed commercial kitchen and sustainably grow their businesses.
Read the complete article on DNAinfo.com April 13th, 2012.
HBK Incubates in The Daily News
The NY Daily News recently profiled HBK Incubates’ member Ana Matos, a talented sofrito maker originally from the Dominican Republic.
Hot Bread Kitchen CEO, Jessamyn Rodriguez and HBK Incubates Director Sandra Vu were also interviewed and discussed the offerings of Hot Bread Kitchen’s incubator program
Read the complete article in the Daily News April 11, 2012.
International Women’s Day
On Thursday March 8th, Hot Bread Kitchen celebrated Women’s Day with our international team of bakers. To commemorate this holiday, we hosted a staff meal, in which each woman enrolled in our baking training program was asked to bring a dish from her country of origin. Sixteen women from eight different countries attended the lunch, making delicious food representative of their countries of origin, including, Mexican flautas, Dominican caribe, Russian piroshki, and Pakistani biryani. Gathered around the table in the classroom of our bakery, we tasted one another’s food and shared stories of important women in our lives.
Through the work of our organization we strive to honor the contributions of foreign-born women and are glad that one day each year there is an internationally observed holiday that reminds us of the important impact that women make around the world every day.
More Hot Bread Kitchen
Hot Bread Kitchen Founder and CEO Jessamyn Rodriguez was recently featured in this month’s edition of More Magazine. Jessamyn was chosen by More to be part of their innovator series for entrepreneurs who are creating new jobs for women. During the summer, More will host a poll where readers can vote for their favorite innovator for a chance to win win $20,000.
Read the complete article as a PDF as it appeared in the print version of More Magazine in February 2012.
HBK featured in Edible Queens
Hot Bread Kitchen was featured as a part of a larger article in the Winter 2012 issue of Edible Queens. The article, “A Long Winter’s Market” by Buzz Poole, highlighted the Jackson Heights Greenmarket, which is open every Sunday year-round, and continues to maintain a strong customer base during the cold winter months. Hot Bread Kitchen has been selling products in the Jackson Heights Greenmarket every Sunday for the past year.
Click the images below to see the full article.
Hot Bread Almacen: Request for Proposals
Hot Bread Kitchen is excited to announce that with the help of the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone(UMEZ), we will be opening a bakery storefront in the historic La Marqueta. We are seeking a creative designer to help us develop a design concept for the storefront and oversee the build-out of the space.
Hot Bread Kitchen will host an information session & site visit for interested parties tonight: Thursday, February 16th at 7:00pm. Please RSVP for the info session to Robin@HotBreadKitchen.org
Read the RFP Hot Bread Almacen for detailed instructions on how to apply.
HBK on ABC
Hot Bread Kitchen was featured on ABC News on January 24th, 2012. Reporter Lauren Glassberg visited our Harlem kitchen to see our operations in action and interview Hot Bread Kitchen CEO, Jessamyn Rodriguez along with a few of our bakers. Glassberg described Hot Bread Kitchen as a, “unique bakery in Harlem is serving up more than just bread, it is changing the lives of the workers it hires.”
To read the complete transcript of the video, go to ABC Eyewitness News online.
Nan-e Qandi Re-imagined
One of our regular customers, David Siegel of Fats & Flour made this delicious creation of roasted kale and tomato over Nan-e Qandi, putting a new spin on this classic Persian flat bread.
“I get so excited about these breads which at their roots, are staple foods of the communities which they come from – especially so for many of the products made at Hot Bread Kitchen. Even while wonderful on their own, they create the perfect canvass for whatever else might be on hand.” – David
*Hot Bread Kitchen’s Nan-e Qandi is sold at all of our Greenmarket locations, as well as at Whole Foods Markets in NYC.
HBK Learns our ABC’s
On December 20, 2011 Hot Bread Kitchen presented our programs to the Parent Council of the Association to Benefit Children( ABC) located at Park Avenue and E. 126 Street. Over 30 parents were in attendance (almost all of them mother!s). ABC serves low income immigrant and minority families in the East Harlem and greater Harlem areas.
The parents were very interested in Hot Bread Kitchen’s bakery training and kitchen incubator programs. Many took job applications home with the desire to join the bakery. Others started to talk about their ideas to start a food business and were very excited about the idea being their own bosses. One mother said “As women we are full of ideas we never act on, you are helping women believe in themselves and make those ideas a reality”.
The excitement about HBK was such, that the mothers walked out of the meeting accompanying the presenter, Beatriz Mieses-Hernandez Hot Bread Kitchen’s Community Liaison, to ask more questions and talk about their business ideas. The next step will be a tour of the HBK facilities for parents interested in applying for the bakery training program or the kitchen incubator. We look forward to building a lasting partnership with ABC and other similar organizations serving the Harlem community.
