Bamboo Bread Bag - Be GREEN while Keeping Your Bread Fresh!

Bamboo bags for carrying and storing loaves of bread are a new, sustainable product launched in November, 2007 by three Berkeley-based enterprenuies: Ann Arnold, a writer and illustrator of children's books; Linda Elvira Piedra, a photographer and Lauren Shi, an alternative medicine practitioner and acupuncturist-in-training who runs the Wellspring Clinic.

Ann, a Marin resident (her great grandparents gave Muir Woods, the National Monument, to California. Her grandmother was a Kent, as in Kentfield of Southern Marin), came across the bamboo cloth in a fabric store.  The cloth is woven from the substantially reproducing bamboo that's becoming one of the hottest multipurpose crops in Asia and Indonesia.  Added benefit is that the bamboo fabric also has antibacterial properties. The bamboo cloth wicks moisture very well to keep the crust crusty, but can als hold enough moisture to keep the bread from getting too hard too soon. It certainly does seem to keep it better than any regular cloth, and certainly better than plastic, which destroys the crust.

There are two sizes to the banboom bags; a drawstring pouch shape that can hold two 1-pound rounds of bread, and a long quiver capable of protecting three long loaves.

Both shapes retail for $16 plus $2 for postage if ordered online from http://www.bamboo-bag.com/.

For more information, e-mail bamboo-bag@hush mail.com.