Join Hot Bread Kitchen founder Jessamyn Rodriguez for a baking class on 10/25 at Sur la Table to learn how one buttery, rich dough can make two delicious breads from different ethnic traditions. Jessamyn will discuss her award-winning book, The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook, and demonstrate how to make Mexican Pan de Muerto (just in […]
Food & Recipes
National Sandwich Month Recipe: Reuben
August is National Sandwich Month, so we’re sharing the recipe for one of our all-time favorites from The Hot Bread Kitchen Cookbook – a classic reuben with a twist. For extra credit, make the bread yourself. But if you want to avoid too much time by a hot stove, let us make it for you. All […]
Eater: A Restaurant Guide to East Harlem
The inimitable Robert Sietsema leads Eater readers on a food tour of El Barrio, with a shout out to Hot Bread Kitchen!
Beat the Heat: Bread Salads from Around the World
It’s hot out there: skip the cooking and mix up a fresh, cold salad using leftover bread. Jessamyn shared four recipes for bread salads inspired by different cultures with Oprah Magazine. The recipe is simple: day-old bread, an abundance of fresh veggies, a bright acidic note, protein and crunch equal a perfect summer supper. It’s […]
Serious Eats Special Sauce
Serious Eats’ Ed Levine and Jessamyn go way back. They first met eight years ago, when Ed discovered Jessamyn and her mother selling handmade tortillas at a tiny farmers market in West Harlem. Since then, he’s become obsessed with our bialys (which he calls the very best in New York), and we’ve grown quite a bit. […]
How to Pronounce M’smen
When our friends at GrowNYC approached us to tell a Greenmarket story as part of their 40th anniversary celebration, we knew we had to talk about m’smen. Our relationship with GrowNYC has supported Hot Bread Kitchen’s growth. When founder Jessamyn Rodriguez launched Hot Bread Kitchen out of her home, she sold bread in local community […]









