Oh, if only I could be the kind of person who bakes a loaf of bread every week.
Someday.
But not today.
Today? I picked up my bread share from the Five Points Bakery.
Over on Rhode Island Street in the City next to Urban Roots lies Five Points Bakery.
(Or for those who don’t know where that is…a bit up the road past Left Bank and Essex Street Pub.)
A store appears just a stone’s throw from Kevin and Melissa’s house, in a neighborhood they have inhabited for close to ten years. The front of the store gets fixed up, and Melissa starts dreaming of a local store. “What about all the hard things to get locally: beans, oil, cheese? Bread!?!”
Back to the mill and back to the store to make bread. 100% local whole grain bread. A place to talk to people and to educate anyone who will listen. A place where doing what is right rules. A neighborhood resurrected and a community built on bread.
All our breads are 100% whole grain made from organically grown, Isadora hard red wheat. This wheat is grown for us on the Zittle farm in Hamburg New York and stone ground into flour, every day. We extract nothing from the flour, so what you get is 100% locally grown, whole grain bread.
Oh but there’s more. Not just bread and pastries and pizza. But dry goods and butter and milk and meat. All local!
My co-worker friend Heather and I are share members. This makes us happy. Kate who is the pretty girl in the middle is also happy, but she makes her own bread *Loafin’ Around* Also. I look stoopid and need big sunglasses to hang out with these girls.
A new Thursday tradition! Five Points Bakery! 🙂
Get there…soon. And while there I’d sample the homemade organic ice cream. Cheryl’s Sunday Morning Coffee was an excellent addition to my lunch this afternoon.
And by lunch, I mean snickerdoodles and ice cream.
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