Turtle Bakery #2

Turtle Bakery and Restaurant has a great menu plus an open workroom where you can see all the delectable bakery from its beginning in flour sacks, and various ingredients, to the machines and ovens that make the whole enterprise work.

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APRIL POEM #6

Blueberries
 

Blueberries as big as the end of your thumb,

Real sky-blue, and heavy, and ready to drum

In the cavernous pail of the first one to come!

And all ripe together, not some of them green

And some of them ripe!
     You ought to have seen!

Robert Frost

Tools of the Trade-Turtle Bakery

First you start with Cory who is one of the baking staff at Turtle Bakery, and then you learn how to use some of this equipment.  Cory went to high school in North St Paul-Maplewood, and, after graduating from college,  she started working at the bakery/restaurant located in Minneapolis.  Her first job must be satisfying, since she is still there after two years.  Tomorrow I'll show you some of the delightful things she and her colleagues produce for our tasting pleasure.


APRIL POEM #5

the drum


daddy says the world
is a drum tight
and hard
and i told him
i'm gonna beat out
my own rhythm


     nikki giovanni