All Opinion articles – Page 18
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Gerhard’s blog: Riviera revelations
Gerhard Jenne takes us through his delicious bakery discoveries on a recent holiday to the south of France.
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Blog: what’s your excuse for not pursuing your passion?
Ok then, let’s get right to the heart of this question: what is stopping you doing what you’ve always dreamed of? The mere hint of it sets your heart racing and you daydream a thousand daydreams, in total abandonment. That’s your passion, that’s you, telling you what you want, that’s you saying to yourself that you are capable of fulfilling your life’s dreams – if only you have the courage to listen. So why don’t you?
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Blog: Has it come to this?
I am now 56-years-old, and my own children like to continually remind me that if there was a hill to be over, I would be not only be over it...
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Gerhard’s blog: Gay and other cake commissions
Gerhard Jenne looks back at some risqué cake commissions and points to the importance of moving with the times.
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Blog: And so it begins…
As I write, it’s 8:31am on Wednesday 2 July and I am aboard the ‘Virgin Pendolino’ from Wigan (God’s own country) to London for the first Craft Bakers’ Association (CBA) board meeting after our conference...
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Gerhard’s blog: Raspberry fudge for brunch
Gerhard Jenne relives the rush of a television spotlight on Sunday Brunch and the challenge of making a raspberry fudge tart in front of the cameras.
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Gerhard’s blog: Summer of love
While planning for Christmas is in full swing, Gerhard turns his attention back to summer and the strawberry creations flying out of the door.
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David Smart’s blog: Daddy’s Little Girl
Family-owned businesses account for about 80% of all businesses worldwide, and about one-third of them are owned by women. Census data and recent research show that daughters and wives are increasingly taking over family firms.
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Gerhard’s blog: Glasgow bites
Gerhard Jenne makes a brief sojourn to Glasgow and samples some of the city’s bakery delights
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Gerhard’s blog: Sporting challenges
Those of you who read this blog might sometimes question what planet I live on, waxing on about individual servings of pastries that cost anything from £5, even £8. This does not resemble anything in your life, you might think. It doesn’t for most of the time in mine either, but when you live and work in Central London, you can’t help but notice these things and it also makes it very exciting.
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Gerhard’s blog: Hot town, summer in the city
Hot town, summer in the city, our displays are looking yummy and pretty…
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Blog: Craft Bakers’ Association looks to the future
The Craft Bakers’ Association promised a conference that would be business orientated, relevant to today’s business needs and which would create an ideal forum for bakery owners to meet and network with like-minded people. And that’s exactly what it did.
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Gerhard’s blog: the past and future of patisseries?
Gerhard Jenne delights in the sheer variety of London’ patisserie venues, ranging from classic and traditionalist to a minimalist vision of the future
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Blog: Summer’s sport gives bakers opportunities
John Young, national sales manager, Orchard Valley Foods embraces the growing diversity of baking and suggests bakers take advantage of this summer’s sporting events
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Blog: wedding cakes and their history
How do you price up a Royal Wedding Cake? A multi-tiered extravaganza, plus 600 pre-cut portions, as well as 4,000 portions to be packaged and posted, not forgetting the whole production and logistics shrouded in a cloak of secrecy?
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Gerhard’s blog: Eurovision wonderment
Gerhard Jenne relives with delight the moment his Curly Whirly Cake suddenly came under the Eurovision spotlight.
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Value for money or money for old rope?
Honestly, just when are you going to learn, you half-witted, dumb-brained nincompoops? Flogging utter garbage for next to nowt is actually destroying our businesses.
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Gerhard’s blog: Change in just one generation
Gerhard Jenne reflects on just how far the UK bakery market has changed since he arrived on British shores.