I still remember 20 years ago when I started working in a small bakery hidden in the Swiss mountains, we had one black color analog telephone hung up on the wall and in the shop we had another wireless phone with a huge metal antenna (which was a spectacular display of technology back then). That … Read more
Last night was the social media week day for the Food and Beverage industry. Spending the evening with people you’ve been chatting away countless times through social media without actually having met them before is one of these moments where you talk to someone face to face for 2 minutes and you feel like you’ve … Read more
Happy New Year everyone! By the way, it seems that everyone is being fairly lazy for the last post of the year putting up the “best of 2011” on their blog. So I thought why not… but instead of doing a boring top 10 of deja-vu‘s, I thought I would rather feature the single most … Read more
Welcome! …ok… it looks cool and everything, but it’s nothing like JK Rowling’s book launch, you know… But hey, you know what? I bet she didn’t have the kind of breads we had at the book launch. (although, in all good spirit, I don’t think she cares! lol ) For La Boulangerie press event, we … Read more
A few weeks ago, Natalie (Hi Natalie :) ) left me a message on Facebook, asking me about marron glace… and a few days later, Moritz was asking me about quality candied lemon peel to make his favorite Lackerli cookies. Chestnuts weren’t a problem to find, but at this time of the year, thick skin … Read more
