As any passionate baker will tell you (and there aren’t many who aren’t in my experience), making bread frequently becomes a bit of an all consuming obsession. Lately, as pro-bakers increasingly offer the un-tutoured access to the inner sanctum that is the bakery, this obsession has gone viral, finding new hosts in the form of [...]
March 25, 2011 | Read article
Banging the drum for Real Bread can never be a bad thing in my book and kicking off BBC2’s Great British Food Revival by campaigning for the return of the authentic crusty loaf certainly captures the zeitgeist. What an absolute pleasure to see Chris Young of the Real Bread Campaign giving it some welly about [...]
March 10, 2011 | Read article
Magpie like, in idle moments spent poring over these old gems, I am always in search of treasure, that little recipe that glints with the hint and allure of something special; this time I think I’ve struck gold.
March 3, 2011 | Read article
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
