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Upper Midwest Bakery Association

National Organizations

The Bread Baker's Guild of America
This is the site for information about traditional breads. They have a section on bread books you may want to review.

International Cake Exploration Societé
ICES is an organization of over 4000 members worldwide. Its members share one thing - a love of sugarcrafting. They create works of confectionery art with buttercream, gumpaste, pastillage, fondant, and many other edible media. The site has information about chapters, recipes, scholarships, decorating events and links.

The International Dairy, Deli, Bakery Association
This site offers information about the association and training materials.

Retail Bakers of America

We're a trade association. That's a business partner. We create industry-specific training programs, develop profit tools and connect retailers with suppliers and experts to help build profitable bakeries.

We've been around since 1918, yet our programs are geared to meet the challenges of doing business in the 21st century.

We have more than 3,500 member companies who bring consumers quality bakery foods from independent bakeries to supermarket bakery departments and foodservice facilities. We're also proud to have baking instructors, students and suppliers of ingredients, equipment, supplies and services as members of RBA. Together, these individuals are redefining the bakery industry – and they're willing to trade ideas.

We're creating industry standards through our Master and Journey Baker certification programs, baking school and onsite training programs and intensive industry research. Our price sensitivity and profit studies are just two examples

SkillsUSA-VICA
A national organization serving more than 240,000 high school and college students and professional members who are enrolled in technical, skilled and service occupations, including commerical baking programs, all across the United States. RBA sponsor the annual SkillsUSA-VICA national Championships in Commercial Baking held each June in Kansas City, Mo.

Baking Information and Resources

Bakery-Net Magazine
The professional bakers' online magazine. This includes a Bakery Buyer's Guide, classified ads, magazine articles and links to other organizations. To use the site, you must register online.

Bakery Online
Resource for professionals in the baking industry. Information on ingredients, food additives, baking, freshness enhancers, bakeries, food scientists and more.

BakingBusiness.com
An online community for baking industry executives whose mission is to be the most comprehensive, user friendly information resource for the baking industry. Ingredient markets, product and industry news, Ask the Expert, formula exchange, and resource and job centers.

Baking Buyer Magazine and Milling & Baking News
This site has a number of interesting features, including a calendar of industry events, current industry news summary and a search engine to find articles on baking subjects of interest.

Baking Management Magazine

Baking Masters
(Yeart Publishing Company) This site has a large and diverse list of related baking sites. There are web and e-mail addresses covering ingredients, tools, organizations and bakery service people. Check out their Hot Links and Pick of List.

Modern Baking Magazine

Pastry Chef
The best features are the "Ask the Pastry Chef" and the "Directory of Baking Sites." The directory is a rich source of baking/culinary related sites.

Progressive Baker
This site is dedicated to scratch baking. Interesting features include Baker's Toolbox and on-line technical assistance.

Baking Competencies, Skills Standards and Education Resources

All Culinary Schools
A comprehensive database of U.S. culinary schools where users can search for everything from culinary arts to restaurant management by location, degree type or specialty. It is a free resource for all students interested in culinary school.

Curriculum & Instructional Materials Center
A source of baking competencies, curriculum and a rich source of links to books, web sites and vocational curriculum information.

Educational Technology
This site has very good links to other site files, plus information about web authoring tools.

National Skills Standards Board
Learn more about the National Skills Standards project. You can read about the work being done in 13 of the 16 economic clusters, including culinary and retailing.

Vocational Education and Industry Training
Information, resources and many links to vocational topics.

Product Boards and Councils

Trade Publications

Bakery Supplier Links