The Official Dancing Deer Baking Co. Blog

We’d like to know what food reminds you of home and hear your comfort food memories and recipes.

Tell us in a tweet or a blog post. And when you do, tag 7 friends as well.
Together we’ll use our tweets and blog posts to raise awareness about family homelessness, our company’s cause.

Now, we’re going to pass the torch to these people:
  1. Chris Perrin, Blogwelldone.com @blogwelldone
  2. Karen Wise, http://verbatim.blogs.com/, @wisekaren
  3. Bryan Person, www.bryanperson.com, @bryanperson
  4. Beth Kanter, http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/”> http://bethkanter.wikispaces.com/, @kanter,
  5. Rick Liebling, http://eyecube.wordpress.com, @eyecube
  6. Steve Garfield, http://stevegarfield.com, @stevegarfield
  7.  Chris Brogan, www.chrisbrogan.com @chrisbrogan

**And the rules**
Link your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post.
* Share what food reminds you of home
* Tag seven people at the end of your post by leaving their names and the links to their blogs.
* Let them know that they’ve been tagged
*Please Copy and paste the description below:
Dancing Deer’s Sweet Home Initiative raises money for scholarships to help educate homeless women and end family homelessness. As a part oft his initiative, our CEO, Trish Karter, will be riding her bike 1,500 miles from Atlanta to Boston visiting family shelters in each city to raise awareness about this cause (see: http://tinyurl.com/dzynh5  ). She’ll also be recording stories from the women she meets along the way asking them about their experiences. One question she’ll ask them are what foods remind them of home.

From Webb in Watertown, MA…

“Comfort food is food you make. Every time that I make food for others I am filled with a sense of love, contentment and connection to those that receive and enjoy the food that I have prepared . I also feel a deep connection to and gratitude for all the things from which the food was made. No ingredient escapes my praise. It is comforting to know that if we are available to that surrounds us, it rewards us with its essence. Food and its ingredients live in the present capable of awakening us to that moment.”

Bright Horizons is always looking to partner with suppliers that share our commitment to supporting children and families around the world. We feel very fortunate to have found a like minded suppler right in our own backyard. Dancing Deer Baking Company, a certified woman-owned, Boston-based business, is just the type of organization we look to engage with. Their strong philanthropic mission and values mirrors our own. Bright Horizons and Dancing Deer both support foundations dedicated to the issue of homeless families and children.

Dancing Deer makes a unique, yummy and beautifully packaged “gift” that we are thrilled to offer to our own employees and their friends and families through our public facing ecommerce site, My Stores at Bright Horizons. We are looking forward to a mutually beneficial and delicious relationship. In this business relationship everyone wins.

Nancy | Director, Supply Management
Bright Horizons

This just in from a new Deer fan in Georgia.  Thank you, doctor, for celebrating motherhood…


This is the first time I have ever heard of Dancing Deer Baking Co. I had delivered these two beautiful babies (twins—a girl and a boy!). Their mom and dad sent a lovely thank you package from you. It was so good, I looked you up on the web and here I am telling you that this was just a small reminder of why I do what I do. I love my patients and I love being in their lives and being a part of such an important part time of their life. I enjoy seeing the daddy’s face as he sees his baby for the first time and getting to hold his baby. I love getting to know my mommies and helping them through the marathon of birth. Not only obstetrics, but in gynecology, I have the privelege of being with women (and girls) of all ages and developing lifelong relationships. All this in a box of cookies!!! Thanks!

This cookie is the core of our wonderful family of baked goods. It was the first (of many) of our cakes and cookies to be honored with the food industry’s equivalent of the Oscars in 1998. More importantly, it seems to be a nearly universally loved cookie, even from folks who swear they don’t care for molasses or clove. It all started with a bakery buyer for what was then Bread & Circus, a New England retail chain and pioneer in the natural foods movement. She requested that we make a homey, seasonal cookie for the December holidays in 1996. We thought it would be good for a month. We were very wrong. It turned into a whole company! But we were really right about something else. In the early days (when we occupied a former pizza parlor with a couple convection ovens) we used to say, “Don’t bake mad it will ruin the cake!” Truly. We translated the inverse of this thought into our whole operating philosophy.

When people are happy it shows in the food.

Send Molasses Clove Cookies today!

I learned about the golden rule from two extraordinary entrepreneurs - my parents. They never used the words social responsibility or philanthropy nor did we have any money.  But every day they made the world a better place through positive and generous interactions with other people and the planet.  And every day I also took for granted that the somewhat smushed peanut butter and jelly sandwich, apple and homemade cookie in my lunch bag was a symbol of my Mom’s great big heart. They didn’t make a big deal about it, it was just normal for them to try to make something right, stretch out a hand or invent something which ought to be.  Among the things they managed to create was a whole industry for recycling post-consumer bottles and cans on an industrial basis.

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