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Touched by a goddess
Pomona’s Woodfired Bakery Café
By Barbara D’Arienzo
Photography by Tara Hope
If Roman goddesses could transcend time and space, then the goddess Pomona surely has taken up residence in Adams County, where she is watching over the little café in Biglerville that bears her name.
When Marc Jalbert opened Pomona’s Woodfired Bakery Café last year, he had been producing artisan bread for the Gettysburg community since 1996, concentrating on the wholesale market. His Gettysburg Baking Co. was growing and the self-taught baker had to look for a larger location. He found it at 213 E. York St. in Biglerville, the site of a tractor garage. The front of the building had operated earlier as Weaver’s Bake Shop. He overhauled the building and had Arentsville stonemason Randy Bollinger build him a woodburning oven, perfect for his bread.
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