Don Guerra of Barrio Bread
Baker, educator, entrepreneur, Don Guerra, recalls the journey he took to becoming the owner of Barrio Bread in Tucson, Arizona. He talks about his mission to spread the Community Supported Bakery business model around the globe, and tells us why supporting the local grain economy is so important to his work.
“I have tan grains, brown, rust colored grains, blonde grains, something in between. Sometimes buckwheat that can turn it different colors of purple. Thinking of that as a baker, you don’t want all your breads to look the same...
It’s ARTISANAL. We’re artists too...
...I like to make bread that looks like my desert - the desert where I live. It’s kind of this initial picture I have of the loaf I want to create and I can just go LIKE A PAINTER into those grains and get the pigments and draw them out and that’s what I did with the line up of breads...”