ENTERTAINMENT
by Richard Gorelick and Carrie Wells and The Baltimore Sun | February 25, 2013
The makers of Baltimore's famous Berger Cookies were closer Monday to reopening their Cherry Hill bakery, a spokesman said. The Baltimore City Health Department closed the bakery Jan. 31 for operating without a city-issued food service license. The Health Department has no concerns about food safety after inspecting the facility earlier this month, said spokeswoman Tiffany Thomas Smith. Meanwhile, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has an ongoing, “routine” investigation into the bakery after a scheduled inspection in January, said George A. Strait, an agency spokesman, on Monday.
NEWS
By Knight-Ridder News Service | June 17, 1992
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- Little in this bombed-out, besieged city functions, little, that is, but the Klas bakery.This is not a time for cakes and pastry. A starving city needs bread, and the Klas bakery, the only industrial one still operating, yesterday turned out 70,000 loaves to feed 300,000 people cut off from the outside world for 10 weeks.Sarajevo is without fresh meat, fruit or vegetables, so people are dependent on the Klas bread factory to survive."We will do whatever it takes to get bread to these people.
NEWS
By Fred Rasmussen and Fred Rasmussen,Sun Staff Writer | May 2, 1995
Frances Woodward Sturgeon, retired treasurer of a bakery firm, died April 22 of cancer at the Calusa Harbor retirement community in Fort Myers, Fla. The former Hillen Road resident was 81.Known as Fran, she began her career in 1937 as a secretary of Rice's Bakery on North Gay Street. She retired as treasurer in 1966.Founded in 1868 near the Fallsway and operated by the City Baking Co., the bakery introduced Vienna bread, Louisiana Ring cake and sliced bread to Baltimoreans. It went bankrupt in 1974 after a gas explosion destroyed most of its turn-of-the-century plant.
FEATURES
By ROB KASPER | December 19, 1990
Anybody who thinks Americans are eating only rice cakes and celery has never visited a Baltimore area bakery in December.Bakers go bonkers during the holidays. All those cakes, all those cookies, all those items that somebody's Grandma, used to make and that her modern day descendants gotta, just gotta, have for the holidays.At Otterbein's Bakery in Northeast Baltimore the Otterbein brothers predict they will bake 30,000 pounds of sugar cookies this holiday season. To keep up with demand, the brothers have moved to a larger store and rented two nearby apartments that serve as cookie warehouses.
NEWS
By Jill Rosen and Jill Rosen,jill.rosen@baltsun.com | September 17, 2008
Fans of Geof Manthorne - you lovelorn legions who thrill at the sight of the slim, slightly bedraggled hipster/cake decorator who's risen to unlikely cable fame on Ace of Cakes - you swooning masses must know something crucial. You swooning masses include the woman who jumped on Manthorne outside the Baltimore bakery where the show is set, snuggling up to him cougarishly for a photo. Also the three middle-aged women spotted giggling outside the bakery, bumping into each other as they tried to peek inside the mail slot.
NEWS
November 14, 1990
Services for John K. Ruppert, a former bakery executive, will be held at 10 a.m. tomorrow at the Evans Funeral Chapel, 8800 Harford Road.Mr. Ruppert, who was 76 and lived on Clydebank Road in Towson, died of heart failure Monday at Mercy Medical Center.He had worked many years for Rice's Bakery, where his father and two brothers also worked, and was its sales manager when the company was sold in 1973 to the Capital Bakery of Harrisburg, Pa.He was district sales manager for Capital until his retirement in 1979.