Each time I go to back to Italy, my homeland, I try to make the best out of it as I know that I am not going to be there again for another year or so. This time I made sure to visit two artisan bakeries and a mill specialized in rare heritage grains. I […]
There are few things I like even more than making bread and one of them is talking about bread. So when my bread pal Don Sadowsky started one of his mind challenging –and insanely interesting– discussions around my favorite topic, bread, I was totally captured. The discussion revolved around threats to artisan bakers from supermarket […]
Some loaves just come out happy. This dough, made with no other ambition than having bread for the week, just happened to make loaves with a perfectly moist and open crumb and a crunchy and fragrant crust. That’s why I feel like sharing this simple, yet rewarding, recipe. Of course the main ingredient is a […]
I warn you. After reading this post and looking at the pictures, all you will want to do is to go frying some fermented dough. This is what happened to me after seeing the doughnuts made by Francesca of Creando S’Impara, a blog full of scrumptious leavened goodies. The recipe is in Italian and since […]
Yes it’s true: we suddenly became all concerned about how many holes we can fit in our slice of bread. When I say “we” I refer obviously to bread nerds, but also to the wider audience of bread lovers, people who don’t necessarily know how to rise a loaf but who appreciate a slice or […]
Recently, there has been quite a lot of discussion on forums for bread acolytes regarding the how and why of the current trend toward open crumb’s loaves, also named, “holey” bread. My bread pal Don Sadowsky seemed to have some good explanation about this and I asked him to put his ideas together in a […]
April has been a pretty hectic month for my second life in bread. Hosting Panissimo, helping to plan a bread workshop and the challenge of baking my first colomba. For Panissimo collection, here we are: almost 100 breads, for every taste really, each with a recipe. As expected, this month we received several special Easter […]
_I am proud to announce a 2-days workshop -August 15th and 16th, 2014- which will interests all of you who just can’t stop dreaming of handling dough, learning about natural fermentation, ancient grains, and the art of crafting beautifully looking and incredibly good tasting loaves. The workshop will be led by the master baker Manfred […]
One year ago me and my Tuscan friend Sandra, driving the successful blog Sono Io Sandra -a joy for the eyes and for the mind- decided to do something together. Something that had to do with bread… We called it Panissimo and it became first a blog event, collecting sweet and savory breads from Italy […]
One day I was reading a lovely post from my friend Che Foodzheit and the post was about a yummy linseeds bread he baked for a Bread Baking Day. Now, since I am very distracted and time disoriented I first thought the bread was made with lentils (linser in Swedish), then after realizing it wasn’t […]
