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Northshore October 2025
  It’s 4:30 a.m. and the workday isn’t even halfway over for Alec Rutter and Kimberly Chaurette. Rutter stands in a haze of flour and cornmeal tending a 750-degree Fahrenheit wood-fired oven. Steps away, Chaurette is putting the finishing touches on a batch of buttery sticky buns. Before their day ends at 11:00 a.m., they will have boiled, baked, and sold more than 200 bagels and sticky buns. Rutter and Chaurette are the team behind Rover Bagel, which, since September, has been popping up four days each week inside Bambolina, a Salem restaurant known for its wood-fired Neapolitan-style pizza. The couple, who also wor
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