I’m working hard to get out a gift guide for bread bakers to in the coming month. This is a reminder to reach out and let me know if you want to be on my newsletter so that you won’t miss it. Other than that, I hope the cool weather, short days, and colors of the falling leaves are delighting you as much as they are me. Take a walk this afternoon, even a 10 minute stroll in the rain, and stop to savor one thing you haven’t noticed before. Here’s what’s on the menu this month: Mama BreadThis … Read more

Sometimes a place just changes you, and that’s exactly what happened with Les Maîtres de mon Moulin, a mill in the Pyrenees mountains of France. Except it changed me long before I ever set foot there. A few years ago, a friend came over for coffee and brought stories of this mythic little mountain town with an ancient windmill where a group of bakers were reviving old traditions and setting new ones. It seemed this idealistic hippie Arcadia where a band of bakers gathered for the complex love of simple bread. I was already hooked. Not long after, my … Read more

Did you know that I am a folk herbalist? Long before I baked bread, I studied with herbalist Susun Weed as an apprentice back in the late nineties. Everything in my life since has brushed up against that experience, and it’s even my studies with Susun that eventually led me to bread. What a joy it’s been to integrate plant medicine into my life for the past 20 years. Many people ask me if this means that I don’t believe in modern medicine? Quite the opposite. In fact, I learned from Susun that anything that’s available in the world … Read more