Northside baker profiled in Style
Mark McIntyre’s Norwood Cottage Bakery operates from McIntyre’s Northside cottage, even though the bread sells at local markets around Richmond. Style’s Deveron Timberlake profiled McIntyre’s business last week: Mark McIntyre left the Jesuits as a monk in training years ago, rushing headlong into other pursuits — Latin scholar, calligrapher, graphic designer, portraitist, photographer and teacher of […]
Mark McIntyre’s Norwood Cottage Bakery operates from McIntyre’s Northside cottage, even though the bread sells at local markets around Richmond. Style’s Deveron Timberlake profiled McIntyre’s business last week:
Mark McIntyre left the Jesuits as a monk in training years ago, rushing headlong into other pursuits — Latin scholar, calligrapher, graphic designer, portraitist, photographer and teacher of classics. But it’s his sudden rise to acclaim as a baker that pits the tempter against the weak and hungry.
Customers get delightedly carnal while they describe the effects of McIntyre’s desserts. As Vermonter Edie Zfass puts it: “These wicked creations are a smorgasbord of taste sensations folded into every morsel. Resisting is tantamount to torture.” Another woman says she’d like to make a mattress out of his bread. Husbands and wives fight over the last bite of cheesecake; others tell him they hide their stash for secret moments.
McIntyre’s North Side business, Norwood Cottage Bakery, is snowballing on this word of mouth; his friends, who’ve been taste-testing for years, aren’t surprised. “He is absolutely a creative force and there is nothing that he touches that doesn’t have that level of passion, that laser focus,” graphic designer Lisa Cumbey says. “His work is a combination of love and science.”
Find Norwood Cottage Bakery goods on Sunday afternoons, 1-4 p.m., outside Crossroads Art Center, 2016 Staples Mill Road, and in the North Side and Forest Hill Park farmers’ markets when they reopen this spring. www.norwoodcottage.com.
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Valerie Catrow
Valerie Catrow is editor of RVAFamily, mother to a mop-topped first grader, and always really excited to go to bed.
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