Chicago-born Ellen Carney Granda enjoyed a successful career in non-profit fundraising and a brief stint in corporate America before turning her love of artisan bread baking into a growing bread company serving North Suburban farmer’s markets and now Chicago French Market. Ellen and the Necessity Baking Co. ‘Hive’ (a team of bakers, market tote makers and worker bees) bring the art of old-fashioned bread baking techniques back to bread making, delivering hand-shaped and seasonally flavored breads to market goers. Specialties include sweet and savory French boules, olive oils from around the globe, aged balsamic vinegars and market bags constructed from oil cloth and vintage linens. Necessity Baking Co. uses only natural ingredients and infuses flavor through the most premium ingredient: time.

‘Hive-made’ fresh pasta will also be available everyday soon after the market opens.