Unrefined, which has a location in Medallion Center, was nominated by an expert panel for best gluten-free bakery along with 17 others from across the country. It had never been nominated in this contest before and was the only nominee from Texas.
Unrefined Bakery, formerly named Wholesome Foods Bakery in its early days, started up in Lake Highlands back in 2010, but Hoyt and Nicholson aren’t native Texans. They hail from northern Oklahoma, and Nicholson came to Dallas for work after finishing school at the University of Oklahoma. Her sister then came to our state to study at the University of North Texas Health Science Center, and their mother eventually followed. Now, Nicholson lives in Lakewood while her mother is in Old Lake Highlands.
As a child, Nicholson recalled that her mother had always been a champion of healthy foods. When she and her mother discovered they couldn’t have gluten anymore because of celiac disease — an ailment in which consumption negatively affects a person’s small intestine — recipes had to change. Unrefined Bakery was born out of this necessity…