he smell of guava penetrating through the house, it’s fantastic!”
Raul Porto, son of the powerhouse matriarch behind Porto’s Bakery, can almost taste the beloved tropical fruit as he describes it during the interview. His description brings to mind the smell of butter and flour slowly toasting when baking at home, a market that his family’s Cuban L.A. bakery empire hopes to break into with the revival of their whole guava pie.
Bake at Home is Porto’s line of freshly baked goods that you can finish baking in the oven at home. As if Los Angeles’s diverse pastry-loving communities needed another reason to line up for their high-quality baked goods.