Levain Bakery
We can largely thank Levain for ushering in the trend of humongous, warm cookies that are chewy on the inside, but crispy on the out. The popular bakery on Manhattan’s Upper West Side has inspired numerous other bakeries and copycats, but have now made it so that you can get your hands on an original Levain cookie, no matter where you are in the country. The bakery announced last summer that it’d be selling pre-baked, frozen cookies at Texas’ Central Market, but this week expanded into Whole Foods nationwide.
Whole Foods will carry three flavors: Chocolate Chip Walnut, Two Chip Chocolate Chip, and Dark Chocolate Chocolate Chip, the dark chocolate option exclusively available at Whole Foods. “Whether we’re meeting customers in our bakeries or in the freezer section, we know they’re getting a true Levain Bakery experience,” founders Pam Weekes and Connie McDonald said in a statement. Levain “will expand only as quickly as we are able to maintain the qua
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/PRNewswire/ Levain Bakery has made its name for 25 years as the purveyor of the crispy-outside, ooey-gooey-middle, giant cookies that have long been on.
Lifelong martial artist Charles Taylor changed careers with ICE s Pastry & Baking Arts program.
As a child in Queens, Charles Taylor (Pastry, ‘19) would bake box cakes and sell them at his church fair. He then dedicated 30 years to martial arts before pivoting back to pastry at the Institute of Culinary Education.
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“My uncle was a pastry chef and I used to watch him make these huge, elaborate cakes,” Charles remembers. “I knew I wanted to do that someday, but I got into the martial arts with my cousin, Malik, and that dream went away for a long time.”
Charles concentrated on training through his adolescence and studied at Adelphi University after high school. When his father passed away in 1991, he was forced to drop out to help his mother pay the bills. Charles took on endless odd jobs, from security to sales, to make ends meet.