Sweet Alchemy Bakery & Café in Essex will close its retail bakery and café at the end of June, but its vegan and gluten-free baked goods will remain available at stores in the Burlington and ...

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Pastry chef Max Santiago is used to sugar-starved customers lining up around the block to sample his confections. But even he felt speechless last month when the mobs gathered outside his new doughnut ...