Joanne Chang’s Flour bakery chain expands, plus a new cookbook

Baker Joanne Chang ’91 has a new cookbook out, with recipes from her Flour Bakery + Café.

Joanne Chang

Joanne Chang | Courtesy of Flour Bakery + Cafe

Joanne Chang ’91, owner of the Flour Bakery + Cafe chain in Boston and Cambridge, who was profiled in Harvard Magazine in 2008 (along with a video showing how to make her extraordinary sticky buns), now has a new cookbook out. Written with Christie Matheson, it's titled Flour: Spectacular Recipes from Boston's Flour Bakery + Café. The Boston Globe recently visited Chang in her kitchen to learn some of her techniques; there's a video of her showing how to make superb chocolate cupcakes.

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