Bakers Dozen was founded in California in 1989 by cookbook author and teacher Marion Cunningham and then-bakery-owner Amy Pressman. Whenever Marion traveled to Southern California, where Amy's bakery was, the two would spend hours discussing various baking ideas, problems, and techniques. Eventually they decided that if they learned so much about baking from their casual meetings, other bakers would appreciate the opportunity to discuss the pleasures and mysteries of baking, too. Several months later, the first meeting took place in San Francisco and Bakers Dozen officially came into being. |