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Pierre Ragot

Pierre Ragot

    Two summers ago I met Pierre Ragot at his boulangerie in Marseille. I'd heard of him  through our common friend Thierry Delabre. While I tried to speak some French, he joked about my lack of linguistic skill, simultaneously sharing his plans to open...

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Copy, Cut, Paste

Below is a recipe worth sharing from Facebook's Bro Members Group, the love child of Thierry Delabre. This recipe is from Ugo Perret-gallix  a Chef de Cuisine and baker working in Tokyo, someone who has made me a fan. This particular formula caught my...

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The Key to Great Hydration

One lesson regarding hydration was considering the feel or softness of ones ear Visiting Istanbul's great baker Gökhan Sokmen, he advised me to gauge hydration by the dough's softness, equating it with the texture of the touch of an earlobe. I remember him...

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This Old dough

Since putting on a baker's hat at work I've noticed that it's impacted baking at home, namely leading to a smaller size of roll. Maybe it's the demands. At work there's so much hand work focused on the multiple serving batches, with lots of...

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Remembrance Of Things Past

Thinking a lot during the lock down and the slow re-opening has been interesting. It's sort of like restocking the brain. Besides giving me an opportunity to think through and refine skills, it's elicited multiple kitchen memories, especially around my mom....

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Skills

The pandemic has taught me a lot about patience, including its importance in the kitchen. During some of my free time, I started a home bakery. The skills I picked up as hobby has allowed me to continue to learn and repeatedly practice repeatedly.... tinkering and...

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