Hello there.

It’s a rainy Wednesday evening and Sam is making veggie chili. While he cooks, I come to you with some updates from your friends at Downtime Bakery HQ.

Rye Bread

First things first, we made a tactical change to our weekly baking schedule:

100% rye bread will now appear at the bakery on THURSDAYS, instead of Fridays. If you are one of our customers who is hopelessly devoted to our rye, please make note in your calendar. As always, any bread that doesn’t sell that day will sell as day-olds the next day at half the price.

Why do people love this bread so much? Well, we mill all of the rye flour in-house. It has toasted sesame, toasted sunflower seeds, and cooked rye berries inside. It is wonderful when sliced thin, toasted, buttered, and eaten alongside a big carrot and a boiled egg.

Biscuits

Next up, not sure if you saw this, but we won the Philadelphia Inquirer’s Bake-Off over the weekend. That was a nice surprise. I made 800 long hot and cheddar biscuits with spicy sungold tomato jam. Many people, understandably, have been asking if these biscuits and this jam will be at the bakery and the answer is: YES, this Friday and Saturday. They are slightly different (long hot season is over so we’re using local pepperoncini peppers) and the sungold tomato jam will be on our sesame morning rolls, until we run through it. Biscuits will be regularly on the menu going forward but I’m saying this Friday and Saturday specifically because we are CLOSED this Sunday. And next week is wonky with Thanksgiving hours. So regular biscuit weekends begin, in earnest, in December.

Some Dates to Know

Here’s the next month and a half at the bakery:

Night Market at Downtime is going to be a great time with lots of amazing local artists. I’ll send a whole newsletter on the subject very soon. Mark your calendar, though. December 6th. 6pm to 9pm.

We will have soft pretzels on Saturday this week since we are closed on Sunday. We will have a LOT of bagels, too.

xo,

Dayna

Dayna’s What’s Up Corner

There’s almost too much up in Dayna’s What’s Up Corner. I never read Harry Potter when I was a kid but I have to imagine buying the third book in the On the Calculation of Volume series the morning it came out, knowing full well that I had already preordered it, then reading it immediately that night and morning, so much so that I was almost late to work, is kind of similar to what it must have felt like when the Harry Potter books came out. I loved book three the most and I can’t believe I have to wait a full year for the next one. Hit my line if you are also a Solvej Balle-head.

I saw the Ruth Asawa retrospective at MoMA on my day off yesterday and felt monumentally inspired, on the verge of happy tears the whole time. I also loved the new photography exhibit, specifically L. Kasimu Harris’s photos of New Orleans. I drank a chocolate shake (with a cherry on top!!) at S&P and bought Jelly Babies at Meyers of Keswick and saw my dear darling Pelin and just all around had a perfect time in New York. I also unsurprisingly can’t get enough of the new Rosalía album. What an absolute flex of a record!