He who has no bread has no authority. – Turkish proverb Buenos Aires – More recent bread experiments… Light rye bread direct from the NY Times Bread and Soup Cookbook – flavor great, a little denser than described or expected My own mix of wheatgerm, wheat bran, whole wheat and bread flour – came out… Read More Bread Porn
“Savoriness or umami is the name for the taste sensation produced by the free glutamates commonly found in fermented and aged foods. The additive monosodium glutamate (MSG), which was developed as a food additive in 1907 by Kikunae Ikeda, produces a strong umami taste. Umami is also provided by the nucleotides that are naturally present… Read More Oh Mami!
“It is important to understand the basic differences between the wild yeast of sourdough and the commercial baker’s yeast in most other breads. First sourdough yeast grow best in acidic doughs, while baker’s yeast does better in neutral or slightly alkaline doughs. Baker’s yeast is a single species, with hundreds of strains and varieties, while… Read More Sourdough Dreams
“Everyone is kneaded out of the same dough but not baked in the same oven.” – Yiddish proverb Adrogué – It was back to the suburbs with yet another mission, the first one having been interesting, and perhaps filling, but not… fulfilling. This time, it was a mission of learning. For the last couple of… Read More Filling Kneads
“Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf is better than a whole loaf.” – G.K. Chesterton, Novelist, Essayist Buenos Aires – Breaking bread is our bread and butter, which requires bread, and butter, but even buttering up… Read More Our Bread and Butter
“Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.” – Francoise Sagan, French playwright Buenos Aires – One of… Read More Progression or Leap?