Bread Bakers Guild of America
Founded in 1993, The Bread Bakers Guild of America is a non-profit alliance of professional bakers, farmers, millers, suppliers, educators, students, home bakers, technical experts, and bakery owners and managers. Our Artisan Baking Community is a community who work together to support the principle and the practice of producing the highest quality baked goods. Our members are a funky, iconoclastic, independent, creative and colorful group who value and promote baking education and thrive on the lively exchange of ideas. The Guild is today a community of 2,200 members from across the United States and around the world. The Guild counts among its membership both a veritable “Who’s Who” of celebrated artisan bakers, as well as the next generation of bakers. The Bread Bakers Guild of America has dedicated itself to advancing the artisan baking profession. The Guild is well known in the baking community as the go-to educational resource for substantive, accurate information on the craft of making bread. If you want to know how to make incomparable bread—mix it, ferment it, shape it, bake it and sell it, you've come to the right place. The materials and activities generated by The Guild are available nowhere else! They represent the cutting edge in providing the tools needed to produce the highest quality bread products.www.bbga.org
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Sep 14, 2026
Leif BjellandGUEST
Um, and so this is '94.
Leif BjellandGUEST
And, um, he came back and he's like, "Yeah, you know, we just started the Bread Bakers Guild of America this year." And he's like, "How would you..." After we talked, he's like, "How would you like to be my first apprentice?" And I was like, "Yeah, of course." And so, um, so I had a couple years there where, um, my mentor, Greg Mestel, uh, took me to, you know, flew me on my first plane ride to San Francisco to check out bread.
Leif BjellandGUEST
Um, in '96, we, he was the coach of the, the World Cup Baking team.
Leif BjellandGUEST
He, you know, we went to Paris and, uh, and got to see Par- Parisian bread.