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.
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ooo- this is fun! I will have to look this up... I wonder if the crafting/sewing community has heard of this yet! Grocery bags are a big favorite, I assume these would be too. But where to find bamboo cloth...
Hi Sylvia, bamboo is the 'it' green product lately isn't it! Love the bread bag idea. Thank you for the link.
Hi Susie, I having a lot of fun researching Green things for my high school presentation, but I certainly did not anticipate finding this.
Hi Chip: Thanks for dropping in. Yes, I am finding more and more things made of bamboo and they can gorw like weeds.
Brenda: If you get one, come back and let us know if it works as well as what we think. Will be interesting to find out.
Sylvia....thanks for the post. Bamboo is certainly the in "green" thing. I purchase some bamboo pillow slips the other day and they are sooooooo soft and "green". I will put these bags on my list to purchase.
by the way....are you getting emails when comments are posted?
Thanks Pam, for dropping in! Funny thing is I am a Chinse descent, and I have no idea how much we use Bamboo for! Soft and Green, huh? Will sure look into that!
I do get emails on comments, but I am many multi-tasking, busy chaning the layout + new tools + the all scary Tax ....
Sorry for the late reply!
Sylvia
Sylvia, what a great tip on keeping my bread in good shape...how did you know that I love BREAD. This looks like a great way to keep our fresh without harming the crust. Thank you for sharing.
I love what you did with your page. You are so clever!