Silent Treatment: Loic Feillet knows how to take criticism Loic Feillet is, without question, one of the area's most skilled bakers. The owner of Panorama Baking Co. in Alexandria has, over the years, sold bread to some of the finest restaurants in the District, including both CityZen and Citronelle. But when Feillet took part in [...]
Believe it or not, the origins of Mark Furstenberg's forthcoming G Street Food can be traced to a turbulent period in the mid-1990s when the master breadmaker was being forced out of the very business he started — the then-groundbreaking bakery, Marvelous Market. "When I was failing at Marvelous Market and I was losing Marvelous [...]
Note: In preparation for Young & Hungry's baguette column next week (not this week, as previously reported here), we stopped at Marvelous Market, originally founded in 1990 by Mark Furstenberg, to see how the local institution is faring so many years after Furstenberg was essentially forced to sell his much-beloved bakeries. The heavy wooden beams [...]
Somehow any piece of breaking news on the local food/restaurant front seems small and insignificant compared to the reports coming out of Mexico: Pig farming will kill us all! OK, I exaggerate: The swine flu outbreak is merely, according to the World Health Organization, a "Public Health Emergency of International Concern." Capital letters are never [...]
A number of experts spent part of the day at the City Paper offices this afternoon to figure that out. Y&H invited two of the heaviest hitters in the local bread-making business to turn a critical eye — and palate — on our area's baguettes: Mark Furstenberg, the founder of both Marvelous Market and Breadline, [...]
This week's Young & Hungry details Bread Line's decision to stop selling wholesale loaves to area restaurants. Bread Line, mind you, has not been selling baguettes to just your average neighborhood eateries; over the years, it has been selling bread to the finest restaurants in the region: Citronelle, CityZen, Kinkead's, and others. Some chefs have [...]
