baking

Tasty Baking (TSTY), the maker of Tastykakes, said it is looking at options including a merger or sale as the company feels the pressure from declining sales. The company is also facing "unanticipated operational challenges" related to its bakery in Philadelphia's Navy Yard, CEO Charles Pizzi...

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The typical college scholarship has a few entry requirements -- an application, an essay, maybe even an interview. But to win one of the culinary scholarships to Le Cordon Bleu, one of the world's premiere cooking schools, you'll have to cook to earn your tuition. Le Cordon Bleu gives away more...

The nooks and crannies of Thomas's English Muffins are so special only seven people know all three of the trade secrets involved in making them. And for now, one of those seven, Chris Botticella, has been told by the courts that he can't go work for rival Hostess.

Sara Lee Corp. (SLE) is considering selling its North American bakery business and has asked its financial advisers to test interest from potential buyers, The Wall Street Journal reported. The company's advisers are speaking to companies and private equity firms that might be interested in...

News from Illinois and other Midwestern pumpkin farms has me worried I'll have to add more security to my front walk. My front yard, relieved this spring of its burden of grass, is a wild mess of corn stalks, bean and tomato vines, sunflowers, asparagus ferns, and pumpkins. My kids have already...

They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach. Apparently it works with banks as well. Angela Logan, a divorced mom of three in Teaneck, New Jersey, fell behind on her mortgage payments after a contractor left her with $50,000 worth of damage. Faced with a $2,559.54 bill in July and the...

I still chortle to myself when I think how I got in on the "ground floor" of Monique Dupre's sustainability-on-a-budget workshop series. I took her two-hour introductory session for only $25, in my friend's packed living room! Ahh, those were the days. Now her workshops, which cover strategies for...

This post is part of our series ranking the top 25 bygone products and trends we'd like to see return. Neither my husband nor my eldest son will eat pie crust. As I believe my talents in the pie department are at least an A-, it's my theory that the vast majority of today's pies have so...