This year’s Village Voice Best Bakery Award goes to … Hot Bread Kitchen!
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Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez, Founder
Jessamyn Waldman Rodriguez is an entrepreneur, social innovator, and advocate for the rights of women and immigrants. Under Jessamyn’s leadership, Hot Bread Kitchen has trained hundreds of women and entrepreneurs for culinary careers, built a vibrant wholesale bakery, and set the stage for national expansion. As of 2019, Jessamyn is the Managing Director of Daily […]
New York Times: Hot Bread Kitchen’s Jessamyn Rodriguez and Her Moroccan Tagine
The New York Times shared the story of Jessamyn’s most treasured kitchen object: a tagine gifted to her by one of Hot Bread Kitchen’s Moroccan bakers. She pulls it out for special occasions, but more often sits down to family dinners featuring fresh tortillas: the recipe from The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook is here.
Upworthy on HBK’s partnership with Jet Blue
A month into our Bluebud mentorship with Jet Blue, Upworthy featured the partnership and took a look inside the bakery. “Our partnership with JetBlue is synonymous with our hope to travel beyond our New York roots to prove that our business can impact the livelihood and prosperity of women in many geographies,” Jessamyn told Upworthy. The sky’s the […]
CNN Money: Fighting Inequality with Bread
CNN Money’s Cristina Alesci came to Hot Bread Kitchen to interview Jessamyn and some of our Bakers in Training. Watch the video here.
Now Available: The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook
After many requests for our unique recipes, we are thrilled to announce The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook is on its way! At first glance Hot Bread Kitchen may look like many other bakeries. Multigrain sandwich loaves, sourdough batards, baguettes, and Parker House rolls line the glass case up front in the small shop. But so, […]









