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Sam Dunaway | News Editor<\/span><\/p>\n A new friendly face has arrived at campus this year \u2014 the new Campus Dining baker, Maggie Stewart. Stewart can often be found in Valsetz providing delicious cookies, cakes and other pastries for students as well as filling baking requests for catering.<\/span><\/p>\n Stewart expressed her enjoyment for cooking and baking for most of her life. \u201cMy family is very food-oriented, all of our family gatherings are surrounded by food,\u201d she explained. \u201cBoth my mom and my grandma are great cooks and bakers, but baking is what I\u2019ve always really enjoyed \u2026 As far as I remember, I knew I was going to go to culinary school to pursue that.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n After gaining knowledge and skills baking for small weddings and birthdays in high school, Stewart went on to a two-year culinary program at Linn-Benton Community College. Since graduating, she\u2019s worked at Big River in Corvallis as a pastry assistant and Crush Wine Bar as a manager.<\/span><\/p>\n Stewart is excited for the opportunity to improve campus dining and catering. \u201cLast term and this term I\u2019ve gotten a lot of orders for sheet cakes and celebratory cakes … so I\u2019d really like to, especially for the catering part of things, just kind of amp up what we provide. I know a lot of people were excited about what I made.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n And students that don\u2019t have the occasion to purchase a cake from catering can still enjoy Stewart\u2019s delicious pastries at Valsetz Dining Hall. <\/span><\/p>\n When asked why she enjoys baking, Stewart replied, \u201c(I enjoy) the meticulousness of things. Cooking and baking are two different worlds. Cooking is so fast-paced, to order, get things out as fast as possible. But with baking, you get to take your time and you get to put more of your personal touch on things. I really love anything that allows me to be creative and really just making things look pretty is fun. It\u2019s just kind of calming for me getting to bake and then sit and take my time and decorate something.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Stewart, from the small town of Pendleton, enjoys Western\u2019s small community. \u201cIt\u2019s nice that I can see people that I see on a regular basis here \u2014 outside of just in Valsetz. I can walk down the street and recognize somebody and it\u2019s just very small and has small town comfort.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Make sure to greet Stewart and welcome her to the university.<\/span><\/p>\n Contact the author at journalnews@wou.edu<\/span><\/p>\n Photo by: Paul F. Davis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sam Dunaway | News Editor A new friendly face has arrived at campus this year \u2014 the new Campus Dining baker, Maggie Stewart. Stewart can often be found in Valsetz providing delicious cookies, cakes and other pastries for students as well as filling baking requests for catering. Stewart expressed her enjoyment for cooking and baking […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1030,"featured_media":6995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1030"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}