Milling Around News

California-grown and -milled flour Farmer to miller to you A Grist & Toll and Farmer Mai Nguyen Collaboration What is the SoCal Flour Share and why do we need it? Creating a California wheat flour economy based on ecology, fair compensation, health, and quality requires effort and investment. There’s a great deal of work left to […]

Cookie Tin sales go live 12:00 noon, Monday, December 14, 2020. Grist & Toll Owner/Miller Nan Kohler is joining 15 other Los Angeles pastry chefs to create a one-of-a-kind cookie box to help raise funds for the Georgia senate runoff elections. Here are the details: Sixteen of L.A.’s best pastry chefs have come together to […]

The Best Foods Everyone Should Be Ordering from California by Karen Palmer When I moved to Los Angeles a year-and-a-half ago, it wasn’t my first California rodeo. I’d lived in San Francisco several years before, but all it really took was a trip to the sprawling Santa Monica Farmers Market to remind me how lucky […]

Grist & Toll is 5 Years Old! Community Oven Day and Open House, Come Celebrate This Sunday — December 2nd 2018 12:00-5:00 — BBQ, Snacks, Bread and Retail Shop open Meet Farmer Mai and turn wheat stalks into cocktail straws! *RSVP necessary to bake bread in the oven* Call (626.441.7400) or email (info@gristandtoll.com) for loading […]

Here’s a recent article from TheCounter.org, written by Alexandra Jones, covering the 2021 drought and how it is affecting the price of flour and bread. It features several important contributions by Nan Kohler, farmer Mai Nguyen, and Na Young Ma, owner of Proof Bakery in Atwater Village.*photo credit: USDA/Lance Cheung https://thecounter.org/megadrought-one-factor-driving-up-price-of-wheat/  

LA Times 2018 Gift Guide We are excited to be in the LA Times gift guide again this year. Just fill out the questionnaire at the link below to see the choices. https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-gift-guide-2018/

Grist & Toll flour mill wants to change your bread We are excited to share our interview on Marketplace. Kai Ryssdal host and senior editor of Marketplace, came to visit and talk to us at the mill. You can find the interview here https://goo.gl/p1mqCs

Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking   Meet the author Linda Civitello Saturday, Oct 14, 2017 1:00pm to 4:00pm Meet the author, taste historic recipes made with our flour, buy a book and have it signed, learn more than you ever though possible about food and politics. This book is an […]

Gourmandise Grain Conference   CONSUMER DAY – Featuring JOSEY BAKER Sun, Sep 24 2017 Milling & Working with Different Grains with Nan Kohler, Grist & Toll 10:45 am Sourdough Bread with Andy Kadin, Bub & Grandma’s, and Nan Kohler, Grist & Toll 2:45 pm http://thegourmandiseschool.com/grain-conference-consumer/   INDUSTRY/TRADE DAY – Featuring DAVE MILLER Mon, Sep 25 […]

Grist & Toll Bread Baking Series Sourdough: Back To Basics With Nan and Rose Sunday, June 25, 10am-3pm Sourdough Bread Class Location: Proof Bakery’s Commissary Kitchen 2388 Glendale Blvd., Ste A Los Angeles, CA 90039 By popular demand, we are going back to basics with our first bread class of 2017. This class is open to […]