“How can a nation be great if their bread tastes like Kleenex?” Julia Child. I would have voted for Julia Child for President. Yep, even a drunk Julia sounds pretty good right now. Tweets from Mastering the Art of French Cooking. She’d sneak a meat tenderizer into the G7 Summit and bang it on the […]
As Louisiana, Oregon and the rest of the country do our #AloneTogether routines, Bake This Day brings you English Muffin Bread, an easy and delicious addition to your sourdough repertoire along with a short lesson on Bread Pillar #2: Bread Percentage. This often over-mystified concept is simple to understand! We add to this a delicious […]
The moon is near full and holidays are lapping in like a glittery tide. We are finally getting a breath of cool air here in the Crescent City and nothing feels better on a cold day than baking. I very much enjoyed the first edition of Zoe Francois and Jeff Hertzberg’s Artisan Bread in Five […]
In the style of Sesame Street, for lit geeks like myself, this Monday is brought to you by: Eudora Welty and two full French Press carafes of coffee. “For her life, any life, she had to believe, was nothing but the continuity of its love.” ― Eudora Welty, The Optimist’s Daughter I could not imagine […]
It is fair to say we entirely underestimated the difficulty of moving from Rochester to New Orleans. Entirely. Usually the result of such misjudgments is panic, chaos, and discord. I am proud of the way KP and I have managed to keep cool and to move through the many upsets with grace. I think it […]
Cannot wait to serve this bread to my neighbors tonight. Finally have my thumb back on the social pulse of Rochester, (hopefully not occluding with the pressure) the epicenter of which happens to be usually hovering around Southtown (a neighborhood some call Slatterly), and today there is much festivity! Johnny Mango’s this afternoon for a […]