One of favorite customers is looking for a job. She’s hired! Thanks Marc for for sharing T’s love with us everyday. Tallulah is one of the girls, always up for a cookie.
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Tallulah is ready to bake!
Published August 8, 2009 Current Leave a CommentTags: cookies, levain bakery, NYC, pug, Tallulah
Emily P
Published July 18, 2009 Current Leave a CommentTags: cookies, Emily, levain bakery, New Jersey, wainscott
Sometimes it seems that to work at Levain Bakery you must have a certain name. ie Alexis, Emily, etc. Right now we have three Emily’s!
Name: Emily
What’s your sign: Leo
Where did you grow up? New Jersey
What is your favorite color? I go back and forth between blue and green
What is your favorite thing at the bakery? Pizzas
Cat or Dog? Dog
If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped? Anywhere in Tuscany
What smells best when it is in the oven? Sour cream coffee cake
Chocolate chip walnut or chocolate chocolate chip? Chocolate chip walnut
What is your favorite song played at the bakery? Ragged Wood by Fleet Fox
What is your least favorite song played at the bakery? The bakery only plays good music.
If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why? The big mixer – it can do anything.
Make a statement that defines you. “Don’t sweat the small stuff.”
Michaela
Published July 11, 2009 Current , Pam Leave a CommentTags: levain bakery, Michaela, staff, wainscott
Michaela recently graduated from High School and is getting ready to head off to college in the fall. But first she will spend the summer with us in Wainscott learning a bit about about baking.
Name: Michaela Fitzgerald
What’s your sign: Cancer
Where did you grow up? Shoreham, New York
What is your favorite color? Yellow
What is your favorite thing at the bakery? Chocolate chip brioche
Cat or Dog? Dog
If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped? California
What smells best when it is in the oven? Pizza
Chocolate Chip Walnut or Chocolate Chocolate Chip? Chocolate chocolate chip
What is your favorite song played at the bakery? Marching Bands in Manhattan – Death Cab for Cutie
What is your least favorite song played at the bakery? Don’t have one yet.
If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why? Chocolate chip brioche because it is amazing.
Make a statement that defines you. Live. Laugh. Love. 🙂
Happy Independence Day!
Published July 4, 2009 Current Leave a CommentTags: Fourth of July, levain bakery, pug, Tallulah
We hope that everyone is enjoying this beautiful July 4th and wanted to share one of our favorite customers, Miss Tallulah, celebrating the day!
Mariko
Published July 4, 2009 Current , Pam Leave a CommentTags: Independence Day, levain bakery, Mariko
It is now, really, offically summer, no matter what the weather.
Happy Independence Day!
Our crew has arrived in Wainscott for the summer! Once again we have a great, interesting mix. The eldest daughter of one of our oldest friends! (Hard to imagine.) A friend of hers, the daughter of another nearby business owner, a college guy who summers nearby, and a teenager who we’ve watched grow up with the Wainscott shop. All along with our resident artist, of course, Aurelio, who is back. We’ll take a few weeks and introduce them, ideally before summer is over!
We’ll start this week with Mariko, who was born in Osaka, Japan, grew up in Massachusetts and goes to college in Colorado.
Name: Mariko Blakely
What’s your sign: Aquarius
Where did you grow up? Born in Osaka, Grew up in Massachusetts
What is your favorite color? Purple
What is your favorite thing at the bakery? The Bug!
Cat or Dog? Cat
If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped? North Pole – Santa loves cookies!
What smells best when it is in the oven? Banana chocolate chip bread
Chocolate chip walnut or chocolate chocolate chip? Chocolate chip walnut
What is your favorite song played at the bakery? Suddenly I see – K.T. Tunstall
What is your least favorite song played at the bakery? Heaven is on its way.
If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why? Rustic fruit tart because it is super colorful.
Make a statement that defines you. Carpe Diem
Regina
Published June 30, 2009 Current Leave a CommentTags: cookies, Glamour 24-7, levain bakery, Regina
Yesterday we received the nicest email from Regina, which we thought we would share with you (see below). Regina wrote a review of our cookies, as well as create a video review which you can see on youtube. Check out her post at
http://www.glamour24-7.com/Glamour_24-7/Main_Page/Entries/2009/6/26_Entry_1.html
Hi! I LOVE YOUR COOKIES!!! I am the host of http://www.Glamour24-7.com
I featured Levain Bakery today on the site!
I thought you would like to check out the feature!
Please share it with others!
Happy Friday!
Regina
Regina Dowling
Host of Glamour24-7.com
http://www.glamour24-7.com/Glamour_24-7/Main_Page/Entries/2009/6/26_Entry_1.html
you@levainbakery.com
Published June 27, 2009 Current Leave a CommentTags: cookies, DC, Emily, levain bakery, NYC, wildandcrazypearl.com
We appreciate and love how many people share their experiences and photos of their bakery visits online, on their blogs. It is great and always fun to read them. If you would like to share them with us directly you can send them to us at you@levainbakery.com.
Emily, who calls herself “a big fan from Washington DC” recently sent us a link to her blog http://www.wildandcrazypearl.com/2009/06/livin-la-vida-levain.html as well as inviting us to share some of her photos from Flickr which we will are doing now!
Thank you Emily!
Emily G.
Published June 20, 2009 Current , Gina Leave a CommentTags: actress, Broadway, coffee, Emily, levain bakery
Emily is one of the newest members of our retail staff. She only has been working with us for a very short while but is adapting well. She is an aspiring Broadway star with a great smile and a very sweet demeanor. She loves to help the customers and is always very bright and cheery. We are happy that she has joined the Levain team!
Name: Emily Glick
What’s your sign? Scorpio
Where did you grow up? Chapel Hill, NC
How long have you lived in New York City? One month!
How long have you been working at Levain Bakery? 2 weeks……
What’s your favorite color? Royal Blue
What’s your favorite thing at the bakery? The endless supply of coffee
Cat or Dog? Both. Seriously.
If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped? The south of France
What smells the best when it’s in the oven? Anything chocolate
Chocolate Chip Walnut or Chocolate Chocolate Chip? Chocolate Chip Walnut
What’s your favorite song played at the bakery? There was great Barbara Streisand cover playing the other day
What’s your least favorite song played at the bakery? Dolly’s “Little Sparrow”
If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why? Any of the cookies-they’re so desired.
Make a statement that best defines you: “Someday we’ll find it, the rainbow connection, the lovers, the dreamers, and me” Kermit the Frog
Barcelona
Published June 13, 2009 Current , Pam Leave a CommentTags: animal rescue, bakery, kitties, levain, neuter, NYC, spay, vet
As many of you know we, at Levain Bakery, are animal lovers in a big way! In addition to loving meeting all of your favorite animals and giving them treats (when allowed) we all (almost) have pets of our own.
One of our best friends, Dr. Jennifer Katz, is a fabulous vet who, lucky for us, happened to move out in the Hamptons, shortly after we opened our Wainscott location. Along with Dr. Katz’ help we have started to try to trap and spay/neuter some of the many feral cats around the Wainscott Bakery. For the past two years we have accidently ended up with the kittens of some of these cats (long story) who the Veterinary Clinic of East Hampton (www.vetcliniceh.com) has been kind enough to take, care for, and get adopted. Colin, from the Seafood Shop, says he sees tons of these cats around his shop as well.
Our Vet Clinic in the city, Manhattan Cat Specialists (www.manhattancats.com) , also sometimes has beautiful cats and kitties who need homes if you would like to adopt.
So, I guess the point of this is a plea to make sure that everyone you know gets their animals spayed and neutered, as well as adopting from shelters rather then breeders. There are so many amazing animals who need loving homes. If you would like to make a donation, please consider the Veterinary Clinic of East Hampton, to help them with this enormous project of trying to care for all the animals out East who need help and, for one reason or another, have no funding.
Hands
Published June 6, 2009 Current , Gina Leave a CommentTags: baking, gardening, Gina, hands, levain bakery, pizza, plants, scones, sticky buns
I got a call early this morning and it was a woman from my building telling me that I finally was picked off of a waiting list to have a small plot in our community garden. Boy was I excited! Now I could finally plant some of my dad’s plants that he has grown from seedlings. Tomato plants, pepper plants, red leaf and basil! My own mini garden-something I can take care of and nourish with my own hands. I can watch as a little something grows and turns into a big something. I’m excited!
Then I thought to myself, that’s basically what happens here at the bakery everyday. We use our hands to create all the great things our customers see when they come in. Everything starts off as pieces or ingredients that we piece together to create a larger thing. Our hands help us mix, fold, measure and shape. Our hands take care of and nourish every item from our yeast starter to the cookie dough we shape to create our amazing cookies. All of our items are handled with great care and with lots of love and respect. That is why everything tastes so great!
So I guess when I go home tonight, I’ll treat my hands to a massage. Sometimes I have to stop and think how hard they work everyday. They help me do all the things I love to do in my life- like planting and especially baking, here at the bakery.
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