Category: Breads and Savory Bakes
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Hey, so, I kind of need you to do me a favor. It's no big deal, really. Just a little favor. Leetle. What are you doing Sunday morning? Want to come over for breakfast? Please? See, the thing is, I just figured out how to make bagels. I spent my whole life convinced that they…
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I've been lucky enough to eat a real pizza napoletana on a sidewalk in Naples, scarcely bigger than my two palms put together. Milky mozzarella bleeding into fruity, clean tomato sauce; heaven in three, four bites, gone as quickly as it came. I had the best pizza of my life at Pizzeria Mozza in Los…
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I've been brainstorming. A home is not a home until bread is baked in it. Or, maybe: Bread baking makes a home? Let's see, how about this: A loaf in the oven, a home complete. That last one isn't so bad, but still, I don't know. I'm not going to become famous for my phrases…
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I was a dud, an absolute dud, at math and science in school. I can remember just a few things, the way my 6th grade math teacher's nicotine-stained teeth looked, the way my chemistry teacher in 9th grade tried to teach us about electrical currents by sticking two razor blades connected to a generator into…
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I had a cavity filled today and, let me tell you, sporting a Novocaine-numbed mouth is no way to go about writing a blog post. Contemplating food when you can't feel your lower lip or cheek or gums for that matter, is rather frightening. The lack of control over your own muscles, so blithely taken…
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With apologies to William Carlos Williams: This is just to saythat I am not immuneto kitchen disasters Lest you thought otherwisewitness this breadmade with such naive delight It is terribleso hardand so flat (This rose just fine during the first proofing stage, and it seemed to be doing fine towards the beginning of the second…
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Phew. There now, that’s a lot better. A relatively cool 71 degrees brushing against my skin this morning, marking a 27-point drop in temperature from yesterday afternoon. Why, it’s enough to make you drag out the pizza stone and heat up the oven, isn’t it? On a day so hot that you could fry an…
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Did you all run out to buy buttermilk for those griddle cakes from Edna Lewis? Do you now have a carton of it slouching about in your fridge, wondering if it will be used up before you have to toss it? Well, if you're not going to drink a big cold glass of it with…
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I'd like to tell you that I spent the past week elbow-deep in dough, slaving away at the oven for your sakes, but in reality I spent most nights after work watching The Best of Youth. It started out slow, but my God, by the end I was a hot mess of heaving sobs and…
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Yes, I know this recipe was just published this morning, and I know that you’re all plenty busy as it is with turkeys and pies and stuffing, and if you’re not cooking then you’re probably on your way out the door (we’re leaving in half an hour and I haven’t even packed yet), but I…
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