As noted, I’ve got some nice bags of Swiss flour that I’ve often used on my vacations at my sister’s house in Basel. This time, the whole family was visiting us in our city. Years ago, she took me on a rainy morning through a farm field and dark woods to an ancient...
From my earliest days of baking bread and seeking guidance, I usually return to one person; Thierry Delabre. Known as Clandestino Panadero, this is a baker who left his mark on many bakers and launched a movement called Bro Bread Revolution. I regularly return to his...
I first noticed Pip Agnew on his site, The Fresh Loaf blog Filled with his personal baking notes and photographs of his home baked breads, it followed his journey from the beginnings into the ranks of professional baker. Inspired by his wonderful looking...
Scheduling a time to bake can be precarious as a working chef. There are just so many hours (actually I’d settle for a few more minutes) in a day. Late for work you mix a dough in the morning, but lack the fermenting time before heading out the door. Cold bulk...
Once again I returned to gluten free baking to maybe break the code of milled grains and legumes to finally understand its mysteries. First up a chick pea loaf with my rice levain which was buried in the back of my cold refrigerator in disuse for some time, after a...
