All Opinion articles – Page 17
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Gerhard’s Blog: learning to tackle the seasons
As one holiday season passes and another begins, Gerhard Jenne reflects on the pits and peaks of Halloween, and looks to Christmas recipes.
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Gerhard’s blog: Spitalfields is open
Following a quick brush with some TV stars, Gerhard Jenne celebrates the opening of the firm’s new shop in Spitalfields I
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Gerhard’s blog: Gonzalo breezes through
As hurricane Gonzalo passes through the UK, Gerhard Jenne looks at the winds of change blowing through his own business… and hopes for the best.Ju
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Gerhard’s blog: Halloween on the horizon
Gerhard Jenne enjoys the delights of bakery in the lush valleys of south Wales… then returns to a full inbox and the prospect of Halloween just around the corner
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The power of internships
David Smart argues that it is high time bakeries used internships to give a fresh boost to their businesses and bring along young talent in the industry, to boot
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GBBO: The final blogged
Bronya Smolen admires the strengths of each Great British Bake Off finalists, but says Nancy deserved the title.
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Gerhard’s blog: Training days
Gerhard Jenne shows how some extra training days are helping to create a comfortable learning environment and inspire the firm’s cake decorators.
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GBBO: European inspiration and Star Baker predictions
Our reporter Bronya Smolen talks transfering skills from building to baking, and the benefits of taking inspiration from outside Britain in this weeks GBBO blog.
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Gerhard’s blog: Business evolution
From pruning the product selection to a decision to exit the wholesale arena, Gerhard Jenne finds his business moving into autumn with a renewed vigour.
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Gerhard’s blog: the Germans are coming
Gerhard receives a visit from a German bakers’ delegation and hears about the challenges they face to keep their businesses vibrant.
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Blog: Baking Industry Awards and the nature of competition
Oh what a night! I am of course referring to the 2014 Baking Industry Awards, held at the Park Lane Hilton in London, a grand hotel which is well suited to accommodate a very glitzy evening.
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Gerhard’s blog: The customer is always right
Gerhard Jenne deals with two different customer reactions and ponders whether the customer is, indeed, always right.
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Gerhard’s blog: More fixes
Gerhard Jenne finds that, when it comes to TV programmes, The Fixer probably has more to offer to small bakery businesses than The Great British Bake Off.
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GBBO: Towering success… or not?
Bronya Smolen looks at the latest episode of the Great British Bake Off, where tarts, mummified pears and towers stretched the contestants’ skills.
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Gerhard’s blog: Is success a quick fix?
Gerhard Jenne finds himself involved as an expert adviser in a business fix-it programme and muses on the secrets to success.
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GBBO: Baking bad or bad TV
British Baker editor, Martyn Leek blogs this weeks Bake Off episode- and explains why the bakers dozen might not cut the bread in the hard working baking industry.
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Gerhard’s blog: Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Gerhard Jenne harks back to the delights of Roald Dahl’s classic children’s book and reveals how he has become involved in its 50-year celebration.
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Blog: cake is the best option
Gerhard Jenne muses on the pros and cons of business decisions and on whether cake can be a panacea for the soul when the world is full of woes
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Gerhard’s blog: Bake-off risks
Gerhard marvels at the recent poppy installation at the Tower of London, which leads him to muse on how much has changed in a century.
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Great British Bake Off Blogged: Week 1
The fifth series of the Great British Bake Off has begun. The amateur bakers have been armed with their hand mixers, wooden spoons and guillotines (we’ll come to that one later…). Paul Hollywood’s knowing smile was back, along with Mary Berry’s subtle critique and outbursts of the word “splendid!”. The battle for star baker begins.