A New Icelandic Saga!

The Philadelphia Inquirer Mayor Kenney and a Philadelphia delegation arrived in Reykjavik on Wednesday night, a day after their original PHL-to-Iceland flight was diverted to Boston because of a suspicious odor on the Icelandair aircraft. Kenney and his group, including Nicholas DeBenedictis, chairman of the Philadelphia Convention and Visitors Bureau, and his wife, Eileen, and Folasade Olanipekun-Lewis, chief administrative officer at the Philadelphia airport, were on the first flight from Boston that, according to the airline website, left at 2:40 p.m. Wednesday, scheduled to arrive in Reykjavik at 11:40 p.m., Kenney’s office confirmed. (Iceland local time is four hours later...

Think Owning Night Kitchen Bakery is a Piece of Cake?

Philadelphia Inquirer While running a catering company years ago, chef Amy Edelman bought her cakes from Night Kitchen Bakery in Chestnut Hill. One day, owner Sandy Soley asked her if she knew anyone who wanted to buy the bakery. “That’s when my wheels started turning,” Edelman said. “Six months later, I bought the bakery.” That was 2000. She was 33, a graduate of the Culinary Institute of America and a veteran chef with stops as disparate as the Commissary in Center City, a resort in Florida, Euro Disney in France, and Pollo Rosso, an Italian restaurant in Chestnut Hill. Six...

This Magical ‘Harry Potter’ Cake Is What Wedding Dreams Are Made Of

Huffington Post, Wedding The web went crazy after Caitlyn Clausen, a decorator at the Night Kitchen Bakery in Chestnut Hill, Pennsylvania, posted a photo of her enchanting creation online last week.”I’m a huge Harry Potter fan, so making this cake was always in the back of my mind,” Clausen told HuffPost. “I think the golden snitch is really beautiful and I wanted to incorporate that somehow.” Clausen finally got the chance to create and display the fondant-coated confection of her dreams for the town’s annual Harry Potter festival. When she posted a photo of the cake to a Harry Potter fan...