Father and son John and Leo Lashley make up ‘urban artistry’ bakery Brooklyn Brownie Co.
Based in Northampton, the business sells an array of New York-style brownies with pun-worthy names. There’s the Biggie Scoff (Biscoff), The Ole Black & White (Oreo), and Staten Island Dump (topped with pretzels, peanut butter cups and more).
John, who was born in New York, never envisioned himself in the baking industry. However, after hitting a “glass ceiling” more than 15 years into a career in creative advertising and broadcasting, he decided to work for himself and launched the brownie business in July 2019.
“The first wave of Covid-19 scared me, because we had only just started rolling and then I thought we were about to come to an abrupt stop. But it was the opposite – our sales quadrupled overnight, and we suddenly had to scramble to figure out a new production pipeline,” he says.
This Friday, January 28, we’re teaming up with Sunrise Bakery and Coffee Shops for our annual Radiothon. All you have to do is buy food from Sunrise Bakery on Dartmouth Street by 10 a.m. on Friday, and half of the proceeds will go to the Schwartz Center Meeting Street in Dartmouth. The Schwartz Center works with kids with disabilities and does a fantastic job helping the kids. Don’t believe us? Hear it firsthand from the Garcia family.
The Garcia Family consists of Ben, Navisha, and Brayden. Brayden has been going to the Schwartz Center since he was very little, and he’s done nothing but excel and improve.
This weekend marks the 45th annual Meeting Street Telethon with WPRI-12. Fun 107 has been thrilled to be a part of this important telethon. For years now, we ve kicked off the Telethon weekend with a Radiothon live from Sunrise Bakery and Coffee Shop in Dartmouth. When Manny Amaral and his sister Louise first heard about the Fun 107 Radiothon, they jumped right on it, inviting the morning show to broadcast from their Dartmouth Street location and agreeing to donate 50 percent of their sales while we were there.
We ve been going there each year since, and every year the Fun 107 audience has generously donated thousands to support the resources at the Schwartz School and Meeting Street.
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Subscriber only Sunrise Bakery will launch what they claim is Australia s hottest meat pie this weekend. With the world s hottest chilli as one of the key ingredients the Wall of Flame pie is not for the faint-hearted. Bakery owner Paul Barber warned those interested in taking the challenge there could be side-effects. You have to be willing to sign your life away, he said. There are possible stressors to the heart, asthma issues and burning of the stomach lining as well as to the throat, mouth and oesophagus. I checked with my doctor and he said, don t worry, the ambulance is only six minutes away on average .
Something very irksome happened to the customers of a local bakery recently. As I was thinking about how to present the story, I started thinking back to the character actor in the old TV commercials featuring Fred the Baker, the sleepy-eyed frontman for what was then known as Dunkin Donuts. The late Michael Vale became famous for the catchphrase, Time to make the donuts.
Well, this is a true story that happened the day before Thanksgiving at the Sunrise Bakery and Coffee Shop on Bolton Street.
Finding parking around that congested neighborhood is difficult to say the least. So customers who placed their holiday orders, parked wherever they could and then ran inside to wait in a socially-distanced line. When they got back to their vehicles, the cars were all ticketed.