Some food experiences are worth setting your alarm for, worth planning your weekend around, worth driving across county lines with a mixture of anticipation and hunger that makes every mile marker a test of willpower.
Born & Bread Bakehouse in Lakeland, Florida, is exactly that kind of place – a destination bakery that has transformed a modest building into a temple of flour-dusted devotion.
You’ve probably driven through Lakeland dozens of times on your way to somewhere else, never suspecting that just off the main thoroughfare lies a bakery creating pastries so transcendent they’ve developed their own gravitational pull.
The first time you taste one of their cinnamon rolls, you’ll understand why people willingly queue up before opening hours, why strangers in line become temporary friends united by a common mission, why the phrase “worth the drive” was invented…