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The Kamuning Bakery Cafe is a historic bakery in
Kamuning Bakery is noted for baked goods prepared in its ''pugon'' or wood-fired brick oven, especially the ''
Quezon City
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, Metro Manila
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, Philippines
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.
History
Javier management
The Kamuning Bakery was established by Marcelo Javier and Leticia Bonifacio in 1939. BusinessmanAlejandro Roces
Alejandro Reyes Roces (13 July 1924 – 23 May 2011) was a Filipino author, essayist, dramatist and a National Artist of the Philippines for literature. He served as Secretary of Education from 1962 to 1965, during the term of Philippine Presid ...
who was an associate of Manuel L. Quezon
Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina (, , , ; 19 August 1878 – 1 August 1944), also known by his initials MLQ, was a Filipino people, Filipino lawyer, statesman, soldier, and politician who was president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines from 1 ...
convinced Bonifacio to set up a branch of Los Baños Bakery of Manila
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in the then-newly incorporated Quezon City
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. Instead a bakery under a different brand was set up.
Operation was disrupted during the Japanese occupation of the Philippines
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of World War II
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. Marcelo Javier were among the casualties of war. When the war ended, Leticia Bonifacio continued operating the bakery. Her son, Teddy Javier took over the bakery and was delivering bread to New Frontier, South Supermarket and KFC
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outlets in Manila. The Javiers tried to keep the bakery operational until in 2013 when they decided to sell the property occupied by the bakery.
Flores management
In December 2013, the bakery was bought by newspaper columnist Wilson Lee Flores and the facilities underwent renovation for much of 2014. In October 2014, the bakery was awarded the Manuel L. Quezon Gawad Parangal Award by the Quezon City government underHerbert Bautista
Herbert Constantine "Bistek" Maclang Bautista (born May 12, 1968) is a Filipino actor and politician who served as mayor of Quezon City, the Philippines' largest city by population, from 2010 to 2019.
Bautista has starred in numerous films and ...
. In 2015, the Kamuning Bakery Café was opened.
The bakery building was hit by fire on early morning of February 6, 2018. Restoration works was done as the bakery reopens on December 24.
Products
Kamuning Bakery is noted for baked goods prepared in its ''pugon'' or wood-fired brick oven, especially the ''pandesal
Pandesal, also written as pan de sal (, lit. "salt bread"), is a staple bread roll in the Philippines commonly eaten for breakfast. It is made of flour, yeast, sugar, oil, and salt.
Description
''Pandesal'' is a popular yeast-raised bread in th ...
'' and ''pan de suelo''. The pugon used has been there since the bakery's inception in 1939. The ''pan de suelo'' is the bakery's flagship product, a bread which is cooked on the floor of the pugon rather than on top of pans.
When Flores took over the Bakery in 2013, the new management inherited 385 old recipes from the previous owners. Its cafe also serves coffee and bread-based dishes.
Events
The Kamuning Bakery has been hosting the Pandesal Forum an event where journalists, politicians, and other public figures engage in dialougue since September 2015. Annually since 2015, the Kamuning Bakery observes the World Pandesal Day where it gives free bread to patrons every October 16.References
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