Flourish Opens in Scardale

Professional chefs and Scarsdale residents Diane Forley and Michael Otsuka have recently opened Flourish Baking Company and are now offering a delectable assortment of breads, vegetable and dessert pies and confections to grace your Thanksgiving table.  Their regular menu features a long list of artisanal breads, baked on the premises at 160 Summerfield Street.  You’ll find whole wheat, sourdough, rosemary, walnut raisin, six grain and more.  

For Thanksgiving the menu includes savory pies such as sweet potato gratin, butternut squash polenta sage pie and wild rice and mushroom soufflé. At a recent tasting we sampled a vegetable foccacia and the cranberry, orange and raspberry relish. Also available were cinnamon-spiced pumpkin pie, pumpkin cheesecake and a gingerbread upside down cake with roasted bosc pears. 

Everything we tried was fresh, delicious and novel. They have made creative adaptations to traditional Thanksgiving fare and the results are delightful.  For instance, the sweet potato gratin, looks like a sweet potato pie, and is constructed of layers of thinly sliced sweet potato, crème fraiche and a touch of maple syrup. Buy two of these or there is sure to be a fight at the table!

As Flourish is sharing the kitchen of kosher caterer Avril Kaye, all items are kosher.

The two chefs have impressive dossiers and bring considerable experience to the new venture. They both trained under well-known chefs in the U.S. and in France.  Michael was the executive chef of Thalia in Manhattan and Diane was the chef and proprietor at Verbena. After they married they both ran Verbena and Diane wrote a cookbook called “Anatomy of a Dish.”

You can purchase their goods Monday-Friday from 9-6 on Summmerfield Street and you’ll also find some of their offerings at Michaels and Eastchester Fish in Scarsdale, at Over the Moon in Bronxville and at Auray Gourmet in Larchmont. All Thanksgiving orders should be ordered by phone at 725-1026 by Friday November 19th and for non-holida orders check their website: http://flourishbakingcompany.com/html/contact.html Bon appétit!

Flourish Baking Company
160 Summerfield Street
Scarsdale, NY
914-725-1026
http://flourishbakingcompany.com/html/contact.html