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~Bread Offerings ~ Week of April 23, 2018

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Greetings grain lovers, Wow, this sunshine! I’ve been out walking everyday and I often have a destination in mind to give me a place to land. Often, my walks lead me to the various farmer’s markets in town to visit fellow bakers. Here are a few of the spots I recommend: Tuesdays 10am to 2pm- Lloyd Farmer’s Market to visit Jen’s Bagels Wednesday 2pm to 7pm- People’s Food Coop (my favorite!) to visit Wyld Bread Sundays 10am to 2pm- King Farmer’s Market to visit Wildflower Baking Co. *starts in late May This week’s bread offer: Mama Bread This week’s … Read more

~Bread Offerings ~ Week of April 16, 2018

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Greetings grain lovers, Today, I have very few words. It’s still raining like hell and there are cherries bursting into place. So it goes. Here’s a poem.   Every Day You Play by Pablo Neruda Every day you play with the light of the universe. Subtle visitor, you arrive in the flower and the water, You are more than this white head that I hold tightly as a bunch of flowers, every day, between my hands. You are like nobody since I love you. Let me spread you out among yellow garlands. Who writes your name in letters of … Read more

~Bread Offerings ~ Week of April 9, 2018

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Hello good people, Well, Passover is officially over, and I’m currently picking myself up off the floor after a rager of bagels and cookies. What a celebration of the end of a celebration! In all seriousness, I actually loved abstaining from leavened bread and goods this past week. I used it as a time to get to know my grain stores a little better by transforming them into homemade matzah. Each one was more flavorful and surprising than the last. Without the complex flavors of the fermentation to push through, the aromas and nuances of each type of wheat … Read more

~Bread Offerings ~ Week of March 26, 2018

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Hello good people, Happy Spring! I hope you’re able to get outside and enjoy these first lengthening days of the season. I’m taking some time this week to plant seeds of emmer wheat. I’m pretty excited to get low and dirty and just be with the grain and watch it grow. I’ll keep you posted, of course. I just finished reading Restoring Heritage Grain by Eli Rososa, and wow did it get me excited to double-down on using heritage varieties of wheat! Also, she’s an Einkorn aficionado and after reading her work, which included a lot of einkorn recipes, … Read more

~Bread Offerings ~ Week of March 19, 2018

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Hello bread and grain lovers, Wow! I’m still in the inspired afterglow of my short trip to Los Angeles to attend the Breadwinners symposium. The whole evening was about women in the bread and grain world, and many of my heroines (heras?) who have been nearly overlooked were honored by some of my favorite women doing work in the field (literally!) In a particularly electrifying speech, farmer Mai Nguyen encouraged us all to take our phones out on the spot to write a thank you to Monica Spiller, a scientist who preserved heritage seeds from the germ plasm and … Read more

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