The winner will receive this $25 Gift Card to Cherbourg Cyprus bakery across the street from Findlay Market on Race Street in OTR.  

This Gluten, Nut and Dye free bakery is a must stop shop - whether you have food sensitivities or not!  The bakery goods are SO CLEAN and DELICIOUS tasting - you won't miss a thing!  Every single item is delicious!  It's sure to become your new favorite neighborhood bakery!

With their flagship bakery in Columbus, they are a welcome addition to Cincinnati!  Read owner/baker Geri's story below.  

Geri Peacock started the bakery after finding she had celiac disease 10 years ago. That's a disease in which the body launches an auto-immune response to the protein in wheat and a few other grains, damaging its ability to absorb nutrients.

"At first, I just ate fish and yogurt," said Peacock. But she missed baked goods. "My grandmother's Hungarian, my mother's Italian. I had to have a cookie!" She experimented with one kind of flour substitute at a time until she hit on one that worked best: white rice flour and a little tapioca. She made her hobby a business, leaving her job as operations manager for a staffing company to open the bakery. It's named for Cherbourg, a city in France that her grandfather helped liberate in World War II.

"We try to be the cleanest gluten-free we can," she said. They do not use added ingredients that are often found in gluten-free products such as guar or xanthan gum. Peacock said they use organic butter from Ohio's Hartzler Dairy, and good eggs. They're nut-free because nut allergies seem to run in families with gluten sensitivities.

"So often someone says 'I can't eat gluten and my children can't eat nuts,' " she said. "They'll find us, and that makes us very happy." 

For more information about Cherbourg Cyprus and what they have to offer, visit them online at cherbourgcyprus.