TAMPA, Florida -- "We have to play defense toward the weather outside," says Bryant Valdez, master baker oven man at La Segunda Bakery in Tampa, Florida He talks Localish through the intricacies of ...

TAMPA, Fla. — For as far back as anyone can remember, Tampa bakers have used palmetto leaves to make Cuban bread. And for the last three decades, the same man has traveled the state collecting the ...

Here's another banana bread recipe. Adjust rack one-third up from bottom of oven. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Butter 10-by-3-by-3-inch loaf pan. Dust with dry bread crumbs. Sift together flour, salt, ...