Meet the Crew: Eryn

Name:  Eryn

What’s your sign?  Scorpio 

Where are you from originally?  Colorado

How long have you lived in New York City?  3+ years

How long have you been working at Levain Bakery?  2 months

What brought you to NYC and the bakery?  I went to pastry school and want to be a baker.

What’s your favorite thing at the bakery:

To eat?  Warm Chocolate Chip Walnut Cookies

To do?  Mix cookies.

If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped?  France

What smells the best when it’s in the oven?  Banana Cake 

Favorite cookie or other bakery item?  Banana Cake

If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why?  I would be Bomboloncini, so I would have a jam filled center. 

What’s your favorite song played at the bakery?  Don’t Get Me Wrong by The Pretenders

Cat or Dog?  I have a cat, but love both.

What’s your favorite color?  Green

Make a statement that best defines you:  “First impressions can be deceiving.”

Meet the Crew: Elise

Name: Elise

What’s your sign?  Virgo

Where are you from originally?  Raleigh, NC

How long have you lived in New York City?  One year and 3 months!

How long have you been working at Levain Bakery?  Since May, 2009.

What brought you to NYC and the bakery?  Graduate school to study vocal performance.  I came to the bakery because I love, love, love to eat.

What’s your favorite thing at the bakery:

To eat?  Chocolate Peanut Butter Chip Cookies

To do?  Bug Connie 🙂

If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped?  The outerbanks of NC.  There’s nothing better than reading a book by the beach and playing games when it rains.

What smells the best when it’s in the oven?  Ugh-scones! Soo good.

Favorite cookie or other bakery item?  See above.

If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why?  The coffee machine- because its gets alot of attention.  NO really, anything but a cookie because I’d like a longer life-span.

What’s your favorite song played at the bakery?  Tina Turner- Private Dancer

Cat or Dog?  Dog

What’s your favorite color?  I don’t pick favorites.

Make a statement that best defines you:  “I don’t make self-defining statements”. 

 

Meet the Crew: Diana

Name:  Diana Forman

What’s your sign?  Capricorn 

Where are you from originally?  Germantown, NY

How long have you lived in New York City?  1.25 years

How long have you been working at Levain Bakery?       2 months

What brought you to NYC and the bakery?  The prospects of success in the big city and making delicious things with fun people.

What’s your favorite thing at the bakery:

To eat?  Whole Wheat Raisin Walnut Rolls

To do?  Make delicious things.

If you could be a cookie package, where would you want to be shipped?  Paisley Park, the White House, the Taj Mahal

What smells the best when it’s in the oven?  The pizzas.  Everything.

Favorite cookie or other bakery item?  Warm Oatmeal Raisin Cookies…man oh man.

If you could be one thing in the bakery, what would you be and why?  I would be a Walnut Sticky Bun – I’d have Monday through Friday off and Oprah would give me props and make me famous. 

What’s your favorite song played at the bakery?  The weird one that starts “Brothers and Sisters… Brothers and Sisters…”

Cat or Dog?  Dog!  But I just got a kitten named Trudy two days ago.

What’s your favorite color?  Black, of course.

Make a statement that best defines you:  “Not that bigguva deal!”

We Now Accept Credit Cards

We are very happy to announce that we now accept Visa, MasterCard, and American Express cards at our New York City location.  Now everyone can come down and grab a cookie without having to hit the bank first.