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Notes from my kitchen, in which I bake bread and raise a few other things

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  • It’s Like Watching Mud Dry

    Posted on Monday August 4th, 2008 at 16:19 in , mud oven, oven building

    Have you ever watched mud dry? I can tell you it happens excruciatingly slowly. I know this because for ten days I have been monitoring the progress of a four-inch-thick, three-foot-diameter beehive-s...

  • My Golden Arch

    Posted on Tuesday July 22nd, 2008 at 09:54 in , memes, mud oven

    After way too much fretting that the corners of the firebricks for my oven hearth aren’t perfectly square (and how many things in life are perfectly square?), there was only one thing to do: get...

  • Oven Construction Begins, or How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Pedicure

    Posted on Wednesday July 16th, 2008 at 14:59 in , mud oven

    I can’t figure myself out sometimes. The smallest of tasks, such as hanging pictures, can get me so bogged down in analysis paralysis that they often languish for months or even years on my to-d...

  • Flour 101

    Posted on Monday June 23rd, 2008 at 20:36 in , info

    Flour is flour is flour. Ground up wheat. And wheat is wheat is wheat. Right? No! While using the right flour will not guarantee perfect bread (no one thing can guarantee that, after all), a very wron...

  • What Is This?

    Posted on Thursday June 12th, 2008 at 22:50 in

    Do you know what this is? Here’s a closer look; now do you know? © Wild Yeast, 2008. Want more on these topics ? Browse the archive of posts filed under info....

  • Five Things You Thought You Knew About Sourdough

    Posted on Tuesday April 22nd, 2008 at 23:01 in , info

    I’m prepared to catch a lot of flak with this post, because I’m going to challenge some of the most cherished and prevalent beliefs about my favorite type of bread and that mysterious micr...

  • Let Us Now Praise Instant Yeast

    Posted on Saturday January 12th, 2008 at 16:30 in , info, Ingredients, yeast

    If you’ve made or read through any of my recipes, maybe you’ve noticed that when they call for commercial yeast, it’s the unfortunately-named “instant” kind. Unfortunatel...

  • Baker Interviews at Stir the Pots

    Posted on Thursday October 25th, 2007 at 07:00 in

    Chef Jeremy Shapiro of Stir the Pots has talked with some of the most prominent bread bakers/authors/teachers you can think of. I’ve found it so interesting to listen to their different personal...

  • World Bread Day, World Food Day, and a Recipe

    Posted on Tuesday October 16th, 2007 at 07:00 in , bread, high-extraction flour, hunger, info, pumpkin seeds, sourdough, sweet potatoes, world bread day, world food day

    Today is World Bread Day. The International Union of Bakers and Bakers-Confectioners designated this day to celebrate and honor the food that is, in many phraseologies, synonymous with “food.&...