One Saturday afternoon way back when, circa 1961, British Baker columnist `Long Peel’ took a weekend trip. On arrival at his destination he hot-footed it down to a bakery he’d heard was very good. Unfortunately I can’t tell you where Long Peel was, since the bakery owner wasn’t keen to discuss his competitors without anonymity, [...]
February 25, 2011 | Read article
Plant bakers are careful to make exceedingly limited claims for their bread. The Federation of Bakers website suggests that plant bakers produce a nutritious food, cost effectively, accessible to all consumers and that `plant bakeries are an important part of community life offering employment’. Given that no claims are made for the skill used to [...]
February 23, 2011 | Read article
Today we spend about one tenth of our income on food, one hundred years ago this figure was more like a third. On the one hand supermarkets can be credited with this achievement, but increasingly we’re realising that we need to look at price of the food at the checkout, the price of bad processed [...]
February 17, 2011 | Read article
Choosing where to live is never an easy business – we should know, much to our chagrin, we’ve moved 5 times in the last 6 years. The most recent challenge has been to find a place to live in the South East within a reasonable commute of London, with decent primary and secondary school options, [...]
February 16, 2011 | Read article
Recently I was lucky enough to spend some time perusing Frederick Accum’s Treatise on the Art of Making Good and Wholesome Bread. Published in 1821, I was thoroughly over-excited to get my hands on this rare and long-out-of-print little gem, not far off 200 years old, so today’s post offers a soupçon of Accum’s influence during this [...]
February 10, 2011 | Read article
