PROFILES Los Alamos Arnulfo Ortega, the head baker at Los Alamos, grew up in Durango, Mexico, and brings a hard work ethic to his job every day. He is an expert at baking traditional favorites among Hispanic customers and also experiments with creative flavor combinations of specialty items. For example, he crafts Magdalenas in three flavors: vanilla, nut or prune. The bakers fold in strawberry filling into the dough of muffins to create mantecadas de fresa. Other flavors of muffins include pecan or Bavarian cream filled. They make a signature bread pudding (budin) made with prunes and coconut. Los Alamos features an Los Alamos 10730 W. Lower Buckeye Road Avondale, AZ 85323 (623) 907-2200 MARCH 16 | PANADERIA 47