Friendly Feast to host annual charity bake sale at Born & Raised on Sunday

Brenda Gonzalez's kouign-amann French pastries

Sept. 24, 2020 1 PM PT

Friendly Feast will host its annual charity bake sale from 10 a.m. to noon Sunday at Born & Raised at 1909 India St. in Little Italy. Proceeds will benefit the Monarch School for homeless youth.

Six local pastry chefs will collaborate on filling $35 bakery boxes with scones, empanadas, brownies, kouign-amann and more. This year’s participating chefs are Brenda Gonzalez of Born and Raised; Vivian Hernandez-Jackson of Azucar, Faye Rodriguez of Faye’s Desserts; Rachel King of Kaneh Co.; Rocio Siso-Gurriaran, formerly of Nine-Ten; and Adrian Mendoza, formerly of Herb & Wood..

While the bakery boxes are sold out, the Bake Sale silent auction is live until Saturday. Available items include the last pastry box, plus vegan and gluten-free items. Winners must pick up their item in-person on Sunday during the bake sale hours. (Delivery or shipping options are not available.)

For details, visit friendlyfeast.org/2020-bake-sale/.

Pam Kragen writes about restaurants and dining for the San Diego Union-Tribune. Email her at pam.kragen@sduniontribune.com.

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Pam Kragen

Pam Kragen is the arts and entertainment editor, as well as the chief theater, dining and opera critic, for the San Diego Union-Tribune. She joined the Union-Tribune staff in October 2012 after 27 years at the North County Times, where she served as the Arts & Features Editor, as well as the paper’s longtime arts writer and theater and opera critic. She is the co-founder of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. She holds a bachelor of arts degree in journalism from San Diego State University and completed fellowships in theater criticism at the University of Southern California and opera-classical music criticism at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. And in 2022, she was chosen as one of the fellows in the prestigious National Critics Institute, run by the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center in New London, Conn.

Friendly Feast to host annual charity bake sale at Born & Raised on Sunday

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