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Are you bready for it? Rise to the occasion and flaunt your familiarity with the NC baking scene—from our state’s oldest bakery to local bread so good it’s earning national attention. Stop loafing around and get to it!
Let’s get baked. Established in 1807, Winston-Salem’s Winkler Bakery is likely the oldest bakery in the state—and maybe the country (!). Which OG cookie recipe is the beloved bakery still whipping up since its start ~200 years ago?
a. Chocolate chip
b. Oatmeal
c. Gingerbread
d. Snickerdoodle
Baking is a fine art. Which Raleigh higher education institution boasts a Baking & Pastry Arts program?
a. Wake Tech
b. NC State
c. Meredith
d. Shaw
Nice buns! Find Emily Martin’s Cinnamon Rolls on offer year-round at Cantina 18 for your sweet treat fix. What is the secret starter ingredient used in these decadent desserts?
a. Wild yeast
b. Sourdough yeast
c. Levain
d. Poolish
“Grown and ground in the South,” Western NC’s Carolina Ground Flour sources the majority of its grain from large-scale organic growers around the state and other regional locales such as Virginia and Georgia. But what country is the organization’s mill from?
a. Germany
b. Italy
c. Norway
d. Austria
Step into Hayes Barton Cafe & Dessertery for fine food and feel-good simplicity—NTM delish desserts! Which cake is the most popular (read: most sold) at the Five Points eatery?
a. Lemon blueberry
b. Coconut
c. Chocolate Heath bar
d. Red velvet
Local baker Andrew Ullom is now at the helm of his own uberpopular operation, Union Special, which first bowed in 2019. Under which celebrity chef did he previously amass experience as executive pastry chef?
What’s up, dog? Yellow Dog Bread Company creates delish culinary creations and, ahem, golden community. What farm animals did owners/husband-and-wife duo Tanya and Matthew Andrews once acquire to provide a certain dairy product for their recipes?
a. Goats
b. Cows
c. Chickens
d. Pigs
Bolt to Boulted Bread for a lineup of delish loaves and premier pastries at its recently relocated Boylan Heights locale. Earning national attention, the DTR bake shop once received a shoutout from which renowned publication?
a. Food & Wine
b. Bon Appétit
d. All of the above
Orange County-based farm Red Tail Grains specializes in growing heritage and modern grains for local bakeries, breweries and consumers. Two of its crops this year, NuEast Hard Red Winter Wheat and Appalachian White Wheat, are bred by which NC university?
a. NC State
b. Duke
c. UNC Chapel Hill
d. Wake Forest
Answers: 1. C; 2. A; 3. B; 4. D; 5. B; 6. A; 7. C; 8. D; 9. A
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