Talk of the Town
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The genius of the kouign amman is how much butter Wood secrets in the dough, sprinkling sugar as he folds so that the pastry puffs and separates into dozens of layers as it bakes. But it's no airy, fragile croissant...
-Edible East Bay
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In the San Francisco Bay Area, Starter Bakery, which opened in January, has drawn a cultlike following for its kouign-amann (plain or filled with local fruit and Tcho chocolate), available at farmers'...
- NY Times
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Starter Bakery makes a fine version, thanks to co-owner Brian Wood's years of training at the San Francisco Baking Institute, where he was an instructor specializing in flaky yeast doughs....
- East Bay Express
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..food purveyors, many of whom would reach high levels of success outside the market. Starter Bakery's impossibly rich cult favorite kouign amann (the Express' Best Breakfast Pastry of 2011) was first sold...
- East Bay Express
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Almost every Sunday someone approaches the Starter Bakery stand at the Temescal Farmer's Market, frantically scanning the selection of baked goods for something, something they can't quite identify...
- 7x7.com
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Brian Wood remembers when he first tried a kouign amann, after picking up the traditional Breton sweet from a French pastry shop in New York City in 2005. "I was walking down Fifth Avenue, and I just...
- Diablo Magazine
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Look out, morning bun: The Bay Area has a new cult-worth treat. Starter Bakery's stellar kouign amann is a Breton pastry whose Celtic name means "butter cake." The golden, spherical puck...
- TastingTable.com
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...my new favorite Bay Area bakery that regularly has a booth at my new favorite Bay Area Farmer's Market in Oakland's Temescal district. I was thinking of picking one of their delicious little quiche...
- TheKitchn.com
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The genius of the kouign amman is how much butter Wood secrets in the dough, sprinkling sugar as he folds so that the pastry puffs and separates into dozens of layers as it bakes. But it's no airy, fragile croissant...
- ChowHound.com
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In the San Francisco Bay Area, Starter Bakery, which opened in January, has drawn a cultlike following for its kouign-amann (plain or filled with local fruit and Tcho chocolate), available at farmers'...
- SF Weekly