The La Brea Bakery Blog: Home For Artisan Breads and More

Alanna Taylor-Tobin is a food stylist, photographer and trained pastry chef. In 2009, she founded the recipe website The Bojon Gourmet (bojon = no job, backwards), where she plays with uncommon ingredients and alternative grains
and flours in her spare time. Her recipes, food styling and photography…

Sasha grew up on a farm in Oregon where she learned to forage in the woods, ate carrots straight from the garden, and helped in the kitchen with the cooking and canning. She is inspired by the food of the world, the simple things in life, nature, and cooking from scratch. She loves sweet potatoes…

You’ve swirled and sniffed your wine to evaluate the flavor, thumped and squeezed your produce to judge ripeness. Knowing the little things to look (and smell and taste) for in your food is satisfying—and helps you ID what you can expect from what you’re about to enjoy. So, we pulled together a…

For many, it’s the most blissful meal of the week: Lingering over a decadent brunch. But what about the other six days of the week? We think it’s time every day gets a delicious start with artisan details, and pulled together brunch recipes that are easy to make ahead or pack up to-go. Because…

With summer coming to an end, we can start to look forward to cooler temperatures and fall fruits and vegetables. Although you can easily source most produce year-round, they do have peak seasons in the year when they are at their prime. For some, harvests can happen more than once throughout the…