A home kitchen in Gainesville

Florida cottage bakeries do not hide behind a café counter. The shop is the kitchen, the hours are bake days, and the loaf you take home was mixed that week, not shipped from somewhere else.

Ours is in Gainesville. Mixer, bowls, oven — that is the whole storefront. Batches stay small on purpose, so there is time to watch the dough instead of racing a line.

Sourdough, brioche, laminated croissant dough, and pastry for a table: that is the range. You order ahead. You pick up. What leaves here is meant for the table next door.