Kneaded Bread Fest
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Celebrate the science and culture of bread in L.A. at NHM’s Kneaded Bread Fest! Meet the bakers featured in Kneaded: L.A. Bread Stories. They will be on-hand selling and sharing the same cultural breads they make in their bakeries, cafes, food trucks and homes. Enjoy performances and presentations, hands-on activities, a pop-up bread-themed exhibition, storytime, an up close look at Museum collections, wheat planting lessons, and so much more! Come and enjoy a guilt-free, carb-loaded day at NHM. It’ll be just what you kneaded!
ASL Interpretation for Kneaded Bread Fest will be provided by Pro Bono ASL.
Bakeries attending Kneaded Bread Fest
Will be available from 9:30 am–2 pm.
DK’s Donuts and Bakery
DK’s Donuts & Bakery is a family-owned, single unit establishment that has celebrated 40 years of making the best donuts in Los Angeles.
Guatemalteca Bakery
Guatemalteca Bakery and Restaurant is a family owned business established in 1976 by Guatemalan immigrant, Don Antulio Reyes. We specialize in making traditional artisanal breads and foods from Guatemala using only the freshest and highest quality ingredients. We are proud to make products that bring people together.
KG Bakery
KG Bakery has served the Greater LA Area since 1980. They specialize in all occasion cakes and offer bánh mì sandwiches made to order using their freshly baked bread. They also produce a selection of other delightful fresh goodies including Lunar New Year Rice Cakes and Mid-Autumn Festival Mooncakes.
San Pedro Sourdough
San Pedro Sourdough is a cottage bakery that makes sourdough bread by hand with milled grains and wild yeast in small batches from a seaside triple-wide in San Pedro.
Special Programming
Ongoing from 9:30 am–3 pm
- Welcome Tables: Great location for all Kneaded: Bread Fest info!
- Activity: Share Your Favorite Bread Memory
- Activity: “I Love Bread” Coloring Sheet
- Activity: Playing with Dough
- Activity: Acorn Processing: Acorns are an important ingredient in the cuisine and culture of nearly all of California's Indigenous communities. Although preparing acorns for consumption takes a lot of time and work they are an extremely healthy alternative to wheat flour. Work up your appetite while experiencing a fraction of this extensive process!
- Museum Collection Displays: View unique items related to bread from NHM’s Research & Collection departments.
- Winter Wheat Seed Bar: Learn about the different varieties of winter wheat that we can grow in our area, help us plant a cover crop of winter wheat, and take a packet of seeds home to try in your garden.
- Bread and Entomophagy: Learn about entomophagy, the practice of eating insects, with NHM’s Living Collections team. What kinds of insects have been used in bread making as an alternative to flour? Stop by to meet live insects, plus see specimens from our Entomology Research Dept.
- Meet & Greet: Jenna Thornhill, Challah Baker: Jenna Thornhill is an artist, musician, bread-baker, and jewelry-maker born and raised in the San Fernando Valley. After years of playing and touring in LA punk bands, she graduated with a degree from UCLA, where she focused on Los Angeles and Jewish history. She began baking challah weekly as a way of maintaining a regular Shabbat practice despite a lack of Jewish bakeries in her neighborhood. Jenna began baking sculptural challahs alongside her standard ones, sharing both with friends and community. She continues to take inspiration from the wells of nature, culture, and history of her city and Judaism itself.
- PJ Library: Drop by our table to learn more about PJ Library and how to receive free books. Be sure to join us for Storytime at 11:30 am to enjoy a challah-themed story with PJ Library representative, Michael.
Timed Programs
Storytime Corner
- 10:30 am & 2 pm: Enjoy a bread-related story and activity with an NHM Museum Educator.
- 11:30 am: Enjoy a challah-themed story with PJ Library representative, Michael. Be sure to drop by their table in the Nature Gardens to learn more about PJ Library and how to receive free books.
Stage Presentations
- 10 am | Food Demonstration: Porto’s Bakery & Cafe: Join as one of Porto's pastry chefs, Matthieu Chamussy, shares the making of their all new artisan bread, the Country Loaf. This special signature loaf is made with old-world wheat and locally sourced rye flour from the Tehachapi Heritage Grain Project. Learn all about the Country Loaf while sampling some slices!
- 11 am | Meet a Baker!: Join the creators of Kneaded: L.A. Bread Stories as they chat with a baker from Guatemalteca Bakery. Learn more about their participation in this series and about their delicious baked goods!
- 12:30 pm | Musical Performance: Jam out with the Museum’s Performing Artists for a bread themed musical performance that you’re sure to loaf!
- 1:30 pm | Meet a Baker!: Join the creators of Kneaded: L.A. Bread Stories as they meet with Chef Monica May, owner Nickel Diner. Learn more about their participation in this series and about their delicious baked goods!
