Marcos Cerutti’s Ciabatta

  What is a ciabatta? Marcos Cerutti   Holey bread. Jeremy Shapiro   Yes. Holey bread, m ade with flour and too much water! Marcos Curutti  Thanks, Marcos… here's to your advice. My latest effort at ciabatta.   ...

Focaccia

Focaccia. Ahhhh, that famous bubbly bread oversold by our trendy, fickle, wacky world of food marketing. Packaged this way or another, at core, it's simple stuff. It's charm is simple, the ease of seamlessly absorbing unctuous sauces, oils, cheese, or...

Looking back

Files and recipes fill my folders. Many come from classes taken years ago, notes and half ledgible percentages marked on fading papers. The other day deciding what to bake, I sorted through some of these scribblings, coming upon a print-out from an email...

Pane Pugliese, with yeasted biga

Visiting Montreal recently, invited to a dinner for Sarah Jenkins and hosted by Michele Forgione (two heroes!) I volunteered to bake a loaf of bread using a "biga." Michele kindly obliged, letting me stick out my thick Gallic neck to show I wasn't a...