Konditor & Cook

Konditor & Cook is a made-to-order cake bakery and food shop in the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 1993 by Gerhard Jenne. The first shop is located at 22 Cornwall Rd, SE1 8TW on London's South Bank.[1][2] Today the independently owned business consists of six shops located throughout Central London. "Konditor" is the German word for confectioner or pastry chef.

Owner Gerhard Jenne originally trained in Germany as a baker & pastry chef, then came to the UK in 1982. He first worked at the Swiss Centre in Leicester Square, London and from 1983 to 1993 in the Hygienic Bakery and food shops of society grocer Justin de Blank & business partner Robert Troop in Knightsbridge/Belgravia.[3][4]

In 1993 Jenne took over the defunct Queen of Hearts Bakery in Waterloo and transformed it to become Konditor & Cook.

Until then not known for quality retailing or food shops, Jenne put Konditor & Cook and Waterloo on the culinary map, in the process, and due to the shortage of qualified pastry chefs, ensuring that staff received high quality training and mentoring.[5] Konditor & Cook is highly regarded for its original baking and consistent quality, using organic, free-range eggs and natural butter in all their baking.

Konditor & Cook is particularly well known for their extensive range of chocolate brownies, their chocolate/vanilla Curly Whirly cake, a velvet marzipan covered Whiskey Bomb and its original Magic Cakes.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2004/apr/17/workandcareers.jobsandmoney
  2. ↑ http://livingsouth.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/interview-with-gerhard-jenne-rise-and-shine-profile-19562/
  3. ↑ http://livingsouth.greatbritishlife.co.uk/article/interview-with-gerhard-jenne-rise-and-shine-profile-19562/
  4. ↑ http://www.bromley.towntalk.co.uk/news/d/16381/
  5. ↑ http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2004/apr/17/workandcareers.jobsandmoney

Official website - http://www.konditorandcook.com/


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