Knishes aren't in my baking repertory even though I enjoy eating them and am happy to say that I've visited Yonah Schimmel's Knishery [http://www.knishery.com] in New York City. Laura Silver, author of Knish: In Search of The Jewish Soul Food, was…
> 'Bread should be a means through which we release pressure and find balance' Andrew Whitley @breadmatters [https://twitter.com/BreadMatters] #dosourdough [https://twitter.com/search?q=%23dosourdough&src=hash] — Do Book Company (@DoBookCo) May 14, 2014 [https://twitter.com/DoBookCo/statuses/466644294745735168] It's impossible…
Who'd have thought there was poem about a bagel? How could I not notice when I'm using a bread-baking theme? By David Ignatow; given today at The Writer's Almanac [http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/index.php?date=2014/02/23]. > I stopped to pick…
Holiday baking has begun! Things started off with a couple of loaves of julekage last Monday and followed up with a few loaves of English Christmas bread today. I probably wouldn’t even have thought it worth a post if the results weren’t so similar to last year [https:…
First time I’ve ever succeeded at making the traditional round challah for Rosh Hashana. Weekend Edition Saturday had a feature on holiday baking [http://wamu.org/programs/weekend_edition_saturday/12/09/15/rosh_hashanas_sacred_bread_offers_meaning_in_many_shapes_and_sizes] this morning and included these…
> Like a baker makes his bread, I make music. If I make the same bread tomorrow, that bores me. I have to remake it; I have to do better. I’m always looking for…the ideal bread.” Steve Lacy, who would have been 78 years-old today. Get to know…
> Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead. W.H. Auden, in an article about February House in The New York Times, 6 May…
I've been working with rye flour lately (with good results), but today I went back to basics and baked my favorite bread, Craig Claiborn's challah, for a friend. Looks like I came up with one of my best looking loaves ever.…