Last week we had a lovely family come and visit us from Spokane, Washington. Eliana was delighted to have a nice piece of Mom and Dad's cinnamon rolls.
You wonder if life can get any better when the sky is blue, the sun is shining and the breeze is swaying softly through the palm fronds when a soft gentle child walks in to Peace & Loaf with her grandparents and decides... she wants the whole cranberry nut loaf to herself. Ahhh... what a delight.
Wednesday March 4th was Gloria's Birthday so what better way to celebrate it than with the Peace and Loaf family. The day started early as usual. 3:00am wake up call... coffee brewing... time to start. Leonard Cohen playing on the background, potato bread in the making. Life is good!
Karina, Enrique and George (minus the photographer Gloria) are some of the members of the Peace & Loaf family. Always happy to see you and your families come and share a morning coffee and a cinnamon roll with us.
On Saturday morning Dusty Marie was kind enough to come and be our celebrity hostess for the day. Dusty came from Albuquerque, NM. She is a massage therapist and a mid wife. She was able to welcome our customers with a great big smile. Everyone wanted to meet her! She was an incredible help for us that day and we thank her from the bottom of our heart.
We have had a few bakers come by from Canada lately. it has been great fun to exchange thoughts with them and get some feedback after they taste our breads. A real synergy there. On the photograph you can see our olive rosemary, then the rye, the olive rosemary sundried tomato, then the whole wheat and the cinnamon rolls at the end.
Dear friends and neighbors of ours from Ridgefield, CT came to visit at the beginning of February. They loved Todos Santos,its lovely quaint atmosphere, its palms, beaches, desert, bumps on the road and all the special things that make TS such a wonderful place to live. But they also got up early TWICE that week and came to help us at the bakery. They were awesome! Thank you!!!
I grew up in Mexico City, in a Cuban-Mexican household. There I learned about family legacies, color, music, chile, ajo and the drama of life. My college years were spent in California studying graphic design. Married with one child, my husband, George and I spent the next 27 years in the East coast between NY and CT working as designers.
After the millennium we looked for a change of life, we started to create our own art. In 2007 moved to Todos Santos, BCS. Shortly after we re-invented ourselves learning how to make bread and bought Peace and Loaf, an artisanal bakery. We dedicated ourselves to baking bread for two years after which we realized left no time for the development of our art. So we made another turn and in this chapter we live our life with art as our focus.Twelve years enjoying the crashing of the waves, living and painting we find ourselves a little older and making our way back to the US. Santa Fe is the destination.