Time for B&C to host again Panissimo the Italian Breads Collection showcase, which is open to all breads, not only Italian ones! So here you will be able to submit your breads, of every type and shape, made in December. Actually… although every bread you make is VERY welcome, we have an (optional) monthly THEME for […]
For years I have been reading some deeply inspiring bread heroes’ interviews on BREAD Magazine. And now, finally, I had the chance of interviewing the soul behind the magazine, Jarkko Laine. The hero of heroes. I don’t know about you, but when I read a book I like, I become insanely interested in finding out who […]
As if it wasn’t enough to come to a lovely farm in Southern Sweden, eat fantastic home-made vegetarian food, and learn from chef and master baker Beesham Soogrim about sourdough baking, this summer he managed to get two guest master bakers, and not any master bakers, but simply two of the most brightly shining stars […]
My Instagram feed motto is bread is what gives color to my life and indeed I do like my breads to burst with color –helpful to fight the tendency of daily life to fade into shades of grey (could not resist the easy quote to the book, have mercy). Last weekend I was once again […]
Every time I go to Italy to visit my family (and enjoy the sun) I come back with some precious “find”. This time it was a tiny book on traditional Italian breads found on our usual foodie stop at Eataly. I Pani Dimenticati, by Rita Monastero, takes us through every Italian region and, for each […]
Yesterday, I was out at a concert (lovely Tori Amos on the last Gay Pride day in Stockholm) and I had this sudden craving for baking bread –how uncharacteristic of me… Unfortunately, I did not have my sourdough starter ready. ‘She’ was sleeping in the fridge and it would have taken a whole day to […]
I am pleased to announce that my dear friend Ralph Nieboer has suceeded in bringing Spanish Master Baker Josep Pascual back to Northern Europe, in Oosterblokker, Holland, to be precise. A two day workshop in a spacious kitchen with a lovely professional oven will take place 9 and 10 January 2016. Places are limited so […]
Last summer we had the great pleasure to spend a few days in Sicily which I have a crush for–because of the people even more than for the beautiful land and the great food. I had planned to write about my experience with local bread soon after the visit, but my blog suffered a […]
Just back from Milan, where I went for a conference related to nutrition and health, in my role of epidemiologist (but truly it was my foodie soul to push me there), and could not help missing the final lecture to head to the nearby EXPO, unmissable for someone dropping by Milan in this period. I […]
The inspiration for reconstructing this traditional Sicilian bread comes from a drawing I saw in an agricultural article comparing different flours [L’Informatore Agrario, Supplemento 13/2006]. More and more my interest for bread is moving away from books about baking technique to go closer to the source. The bakers, the millers, and the farmers. The […]
