Tag Archives: Chabaso Bakery

Flying Starter

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At this point, I imagine most pandemic-era home bread bakers have soured on their sourdough experiments, relegating their oozing starters with cutesy names to the compost bucket of recent history.

Charlie Negaro Jr. isn’t one of them. …

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Water Way

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If you know the Mill River, you probably know it best from…

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This Week in New Haven (August 27 – September 2)

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As a new school year begins at local colleges and city schools, blasts from the past come in drinkable, danceable, watchable and edible forms. …

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Bread Winner

Freshly baked Chabaso rolls on conveyor belt

When Charles Negaro began baking bread, his goals boiled down to this: “I wanted to make something I was proud of.”

So he named Chabaso Bakery after his children: Charlie, Abagail and Sophia—Ch-Aba-So. Almost twenty years on…

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Have Bread? Will Travel

Breads on display at a CitySeed Farmers' Market

My family’s oven had broken down, and we had to wait more than a week for the replacement parts to arrive.

I was crestfallen. I bake virtually all the family’s bread. Year-round. Even if it means cranking up the oven …

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