Riverside Arts Market - Jacksonville, FL

Jon-Claude (JC) Stevens is the baker/chef and the driving force behind a little enterprise called JC's Daily Bread, Gourmet Bakery & Café in Port St Lucie, Florida. Those of you who have been attending the Riverside Arts Market cannot have missed him, his infectuous personality, and the great variety of awesome inspiring breads and pastries he brings to Jacksonville every week.

After growing up overseas in a Foreign Service family where he learned a greater appreciation of fine-dining and world cuisines, JC attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, NY. Upon graduation, he worked several years as a chef and baker for Club Med in West Africa, the Bahamas, Florida, and Colorado. He was named Club Med’s best baker world-wide two years in a row through customer satisfaction surveys. Five years ago, he decided he wanted to begin creating his own gourmet delights and quit Club Med to start his long-term dream of a business of his own. His credo is that great food is for everyone, not just a select few. He created his breads and pastries to meet that goal.

JC’s recent discovery of up-scale Farmer's Markets in general and the Riverside Arts Market in particular has been a real a plus he had not anticipated. His eclectic variety of breads has taken the markets by storm. His butterscotch loaf seems to have its own fan club, as do his Italian Medley and "Ode to Hippie" offerings. His baguettes and croissants are trips back to France for those who know the difference. In short, his stuff does not disappoint.

Each loaf of bread that JC brings to the Riverside Arts Market each Saturday has an amazing provenance. JC starts baking bread for RAM at 5:00 p.m. each Friday afternoon at his bakery in Port St. Lucie. By 4:00 a.m. in the morning he is finished baking hundreds of loaves, which he carefully packs in his van and trailer, and then he sets out in the middle of the night on Interstate-95 north for the 3 1/2 hour, 240-mile drive to Jacksonville. He arrives by 8:00 a.m., unloads his trailer at RAM, and is ready when his first customers start arriving well before the 10:00 opening of the market. By the end of the market day, he is ready to pack up his empty bread crates and get some sleep in his van while a family member drives him home to Port St. Lucie.

JC Makes over 30 different types of gourmet bread and pastries to bring to the market each week, and his baker's art is a major draw to bring people back to the Riverside Arts Market every week! Click here to see JC's Menu with a list of his different breads and pastries..

[RAM founder Wayne Wood says, "If you've not tried JC's butterscotch bread, you are missing a real treat. It sounds a little unusual, but you'll know what I mean when you try it!"]


	Jon-Claude Stevens Chef Boulanger JC's Daily Bread " A taste of heaven, without the wait" 8705 South US Highway 1 Port St. Lucie FL 34957 Tel: (772) 344-7782

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