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Bread Baker's Guild of America promotes interaction and the exchange
of information between artisan bakers, their suppliers, and specialists in the
science of baking and baking ingredients. They present courses, seminars, and
other opportunities for continuing education, and provide a broad range of professional
services. >> The American Culinary Federation, founded in 1929 in New York City, is the largest and oldest professional organization of chefs in the country. The principal goal of the nonprofit federation is to promote a professional image of the American chef worldwide through education among culinarians at all levels, from apprentices to the most accomplished certified master chefs of the culinary arts. >> The Retailers Bakery Association is an organization of businesses producing and selling bakery foods at retail, along with their suppliers. Their mission is to increase its members' sales and reduce their costs, define and sharpen the bakery knowledge and skills of the industry's labor pool, and create and share knowledge of relevance and value to the retail baking industry. >> The Chicago Area Retail Baker's Association seeks to further the art and craft of baking through participation and exchange of ideas. An affiliate of the Retail Baker's Association, also listed on this page. >> The Northern Nut Growers Association, Inc. brings together experts in nut tree cultivation, farmers, amateur and commercial nut growers, experiment station workers, horticultural teachers and scientists, nut tree breeders, nursery people, foresters, and beginning nut culturists. >>
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