Bread and chocolate—what more could you need? Bread & Chocolate, a modest storefront on Whitney Avenue in Hamden, celebrates the combination of these two essential food groups, as well as the union of another duo…
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How Sweet It Is

When you’re in the food business and the Food Network calls, you answer. In June 2010, Carol Vollono and Brenda DePonte, the mother/daughter team behind Sugar Bakery in East Haven, received a call out of the…
How Sweet It Is

When you’re in the food business and Food Network calls, you answer. In June 2010, the mother/daughter team Carol Vollono and Brenda DePonte at Sugar Bakery in East Haven received a call out of the blue with an invitation to …
Soup Upped

After years spent roasting, chopping and simmering in rented kitchen spaces and ladling on-the-go from a silver truck, Jessica Hazen, a.k.a. The Soup Girl, knew that opening a storefront was the next step.…