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Bonus Scene: Minerva Bakery

3m 36s

Our crew visited Minerva Bakery just before Thanksgiving in 2014, and the place was crowded. All the customers in the store, all the bakers in the baking room, the icers in the decorating room, and the pie-master in the hallway, all were willing to talk and consider the many things that Minerva a very special small bakery that has survived.

Extras
Discover some of the best bakeries in America.
A few comments from some loyal Syracuse customers that we had to cut from the show.
Marco Littig talks about his favorites & Monty Colby talks about the bakery's local fame.
Find out how to translate “Mahoroba” into English, and customers talk about the bakery.
Loading “rustica” bread into the oven and a time-lapse of the counter during set-up.
Rosa Montoya shows us the special items her bakery makes to celebrate the Day of the Dead.
A sequence about making and baking cinnamon Krispies.
Rhonda Jones talks about her father and her love of all things French.
Bagel-maker and chef George Jackson talks about his Tlingit heritage in Alaska.
Baker Juli Vanderhoop at Orange Peel talks about sharing and how our attitudes change.