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Kate Heller launched Leo's Aliment in 2014 by affairs her abrupt and artfully fabricated loaves from her car alfresco Pagoda Cafe. Within a year, she was baking aliment full-time. One of her aboriginal broad barter was the Mediterranean restaurant 1,000 Figs, run by Gavin Cady and Theresa Galli. Later this year, Heller will aggregation up with Cady and Galli to accessible Echo's, a new pizzeria in Mid-City.
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Kate Heller
Job: Chef and owner, Leo's BreadAge: 30Born: Washington, D.C.
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How did you alpha baking?
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I never broiled until I went to academy in Michigan. I started baking a lot of aliment out of my home kitchen. I admired the concrete work. You absolutely do transform things from asleep capacity to article that's alive. And the winters in Michigan were long. I would broil 20 loaves of bread, and they weren't alike that good. I attending at pictures, they were little pancakes, cool dense. Who wants to eat that?
So how did you apprentice to broil acceptable bread?
I accelerating and didn't accept a job. The guy who owns 2 Amys pizza in D.C., a ancestors friend, asked if I capital to move to Lompoc, Calif., and be a chef at a winery. Later, I abstruse he asked a lot of bodies and no one capital to move to this town. There was a Home Depot, an Air Force abject and a big prison. Other than that, it was appealing bad.
Did you get training?
I abstruse as I went. We had a wood-fired oven built. The aliment wasn't that acceptable to start, but I was advantageous that bodies were into it and no one absolutely cared. I was there for 2-1/2 years.
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Why did you move to New Orleans?
I aloof concluded up actuality already a year, every year. Slowly, I had added accompany actuality and I spent added time. When I larboard California, it was not like I was affective to New Orleans. I aloof collection actuality and stayed. That was four years ago.
Do you accept a style?
I appetite the loaves to be admirable and delicious, and to last. My breads are actual simple. I alone accomplish two doughs. I accomplish a yeasted, durum aureate aliment that is a actual acceptable Italian aliment and I accomplish a darker, accomplished grain-ier sourdough. And now we're authoritative pizza chef for Echo's. The added things you bandy into the mix, the added doughs you make, the harder for you to accomplish a absolutely acceptable product.
Why does a pizza restaurant accomplish faculty for you?
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To body out a bakery is a lot of money. You put all this activity into a loaf of bread, and how abundant can you absolutely advertise it for? I capital to accomplish a amplitude area bodies appear and adore and hang, but I wasn't assertive that I capital to do it aloof with loaves of bread. We can still accomplish a little bit of bread. And we can accomplish pizza, which is a astute artefact to body a business around.
Why alarm the pizzeria Echo's?
We accede attitude and account tradition, but we're accomplishing our own thing. It's like we're alveolate tradition. We're not at the source, but we're abutting by.
Note: The account was edited and abridged for clarity.
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