Blog — baking

Humble Bakery V1 was thus officially born. What is the meaning of V1? It means Version 1 and that we were home-based. It is not a fully recognised business and still far from our idea of a proper bakery. Nevertheless, Glenn and I were happy that we kick-started this passion project.  We juggled work and bakesales for Humble Bakery. Since we were still working in a real artisan bakery, it meant that we were holding our full-time positions from Tuedays to Sundays. Mondays were our only off days and that was the day when we had our bakesales. Essentially, it meant...

You might be wondering, how did Humble Bakery came about? Here is the background story. I first met Glenn when I was working in an artisan bakery. We were both "cheesecake partners", churning out Basque burnt cheesecakes everyday and doing other bakery production. Glenn and I were lunch buddies and we found out that we had the same interest in pastry, despite our workplace being a bakery, focusing on breads and viennoiseries. We even joked that we should come together to do business (a cafe) and become partners. Well, this joke or rather a casual comment later turned out to be true...