contents 24 May 2012 • Vol. 34, No. 4 Features 24 37 65 The Dreamspace Project Exclusive research sponsored by BEMA and Baking & Snack explores the future of commercial bakery equipment. Shape of Things to Come Kronos Foods’ business revolves around the burgeoning flatbread market and surging popularity of Mediterranean foods. Ways to Cut Sodium Reducing reliance on salt and other sodium-bearing ingredients need not alter the pleasures of eating bread and baked foods. 37 65 May 2012 / Baking & Snack / 9 Cover: Recently, current and former bakery members of BEMA’s Baking Industry Forum (BIF) panel journeyed beyond business as usual by taking part in a focus group aimed at transforming the baking industry over the next decade — just as Apple altered the way people now listen to music, watch movies, conduct business and communicate with families and friends on a real-time basis. Illustration by Ryan Cain www.bakingandsnack.comhttp://www.bakingandsnack.com