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A Letter From Mark
It is hard to believe that it has been nearly two months since The Neighborhood Bakeshop has stopped production. Since then, I have spent nearly three weeks in France leading the International Pastry Tour and a week in Los Angeles where I participated in the taping of a pilot program for TLC. The inaugural International Pastry Tour in France was a resounding success! Highlights of the tour included a behind-the-scenes tour of the pastry and chocolate kitchens of Gérard Mulot and a hands-on pastry-making night at the famous Institut Paul Bocuse in Lyon! The 2010 tour is taking shape. Exact tour dates will be announced in July! If you are interested in participating in next Spring's tour, please email Mark; the maximum number of participants will be SIX. Additional photos of the 2009 tour will be posted on the new Marked for Dessert web site to be launched in late July. The new site will help keep you up to date with all of Mark's new class and travel plans. As for the retail bakery in downtown Libertyville—it has been sold to new owners who have opened a new bakery in the same location under the name of Sweet Tooth Bakery. For the past decade, I've enjoyed creating fantastic cakes for weddings, birthdays, anniversaries, and other occasions in the Chicagoland area. But now it's time for me to focus my energies on the next chapter in my sugar art career: teaching, judging cake competitions, and developing my International Pastry Tours. As such, I will be relocating my sugar art studio into a new Chicago location in August. This new facility will open the opportunity for me to create sugar flowers for sale to be used on wedding and party cakes, conduct small hands-on cake decorating classes, and to manage the administrative details for the pastry tours. We are working hard to re-tool the Marked for Dessert web site. The new site will bring you up-to-date information about local and other U.S. based classes, pricing information for sugar flowers, and itineraries and pricing information for upcoming tours. In the meantime, follow me on Twitter for updates on all the new and exciting places my sugar art will take me. Sincerely, contact us
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