Karen Mitchell, 81, owns four thriving Model Bakery cafés in the Bay Area and has launched a national shipping service.

It took six months for Tomas Saldaña to master the craft of making radish pastries for Paradise Dynasty. He had never eaten ...

It's fun to argue about the official classification of foods -- does a pita count as a sandwich? Is ice cream cake a cake? And how about cookies -- are these considered pastries, or their own ...