Avery Ruzicka, Baker/Partner Manresa Bread

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4.6 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 21 January 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Avery Ruzicka is the force behind Manresa Bread, the celebrated bakery in Los Gatos, California. She studied politics, international studies, and creative writing at college in North Carolina, but her interest in food led her to culinary school in New York City. She focused on bread baking and after graduation worked with master baker Ben Hershberger at Per Se. She first crossed paths with Manresa Chef David Kinch as a student and eventually made her way out west to work at his celebrated restaurant. But there was a catch. The only job available was a front of house gig, so she worked as a runner and helped out in the kitchen when she could. Eventually, Avery began baking for Manresa full time and put together the restaurant’s bread program. Manresa Bread officially launched in March 2013 at several farmers’ markets in the area. The bakery opened its doors in January 2015 and regulars line up for the sourdough baguettes, football-sized loaves of levain, chocolate brioche, and almond croissants lovingly baked by Avery and her team.

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0:27.6	Boys and girls are all by her.
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0:34.6	I'm Claudia Wu.
0:35.6	And I'm Carrie Diamond.
0:36.6	And we're the founders of Cherrybaum,
0:38.9	the indie magazine about women and food. Today's show is all about bread. Our guest is Avery
0:44.0	Rizika from Manresa Bread, where she is the baker and partner. Despite the rise of everything
0:48.9	gluten-free, we are very much living in a golden age of bread. Thanks to the foundation laid years ago
0:54.1	by people
0:54.6	like Jim Sullivan and Nancy Silverton, you can get very good bread today in every major city
0:59.4	and beyond. And now you can get great bread in Los Gatos, thanks to Avery and her crew. Manresa
1:06.5	bread opened in 2015 as the bakery offshoot of Manresa, chef David Kinch's highly regarded restaurant.
1:13.2	The bakery also has a presence at several farmers markets in the area in Palo Alto and Campbell.
1:18.1	I learned the hard way that if you don't get to the farmers market early, you are out of luck because
1:22.5	they just might be out of bread.
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