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Going with the Grain: Developing Single Variety Whole Grain Breads

Josey and Jonathan

At events such as the Grain Gathering, you constantly have to make choices. For every class, workshop, panel, or roundtable you decide to attend, there is one you must actively decide not to. And sometimes the choice is next to impossible because you really, really want to go to both.

On the last morning of this year’s GG, my friend Meeghen Eaton (a super talented baker and bread blogger also known as breadsong) and I were going back and forth trying to make up our minds between Sprouted Wheat Flour: Technique & Formulation and Going with the Grain: Developing Single Variety Whole Grain Breads when the solution suddenly appeared to us in all its glorious simplicity: I would go to one class and Meeghen to the other and we’d pool our notes and photos. And because Meeghen is the kindest of souls and the most generous person I have ever met, she even agreed to write-up her notes in a guest post on Farine.

This is her guest post. The first ever on Farine. And what a post! For sure the next best thing to being there. Thank you so much, Meeghen!

The class was taught by Josey Baker, Jonathan Bethony and Ryan Lee (who for the past four years and until recently has been baking alongside Josey at The Mill in San Francisco).

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August 11, 2016 · Filed Under: Bread Events, Classes, The Grain Gathering · 5 Comments

The Grain Gathering 2016

Fields in Mt Vernon, WA

The Grain Gathering (GG) 2016 came and went like a whirlwind. A glorious one. Although I have been back home for a few days, my head is still spinning.

There has been a Grain Gathering every year in the West since 2011. Even though it was called the Kneading Conference West through 2013, for all intents and purposes this one was the sixth. The name was changed in 2014 to better reflect the fact that it attracts not only bakers (both professional and serious home bakers) but also seed breeders, farmers, millers, maltsters, brewers, distillers, and any other grain end user interested in the revival of local grain economies.

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August 5, 2016 · Filed Under: Bread Events, Events, The Grain Gathering · 12 Comments

Meet the Baker: Alex Bettler

Alex BettlerWhen I visited Alex last month in London, he was still operating his bakery, Today Bread, out of his home, the Brexit vote was two days away and everyone I met thought the Remain side would prevail. Today of course Brexit is a done deal and were I still in London I would be interviewing Alex at his bakery’s new abode in Walthamstow Central, a part of East London which, although only within 15-minute biking distance from his home in Clapton, was still a village a few years ago. The new premises is part of a community-oriented creative hub. A wide open space, it features a retail bakery and a café, which finally makes it possible for  Alex to move away from the by-subscription-only business model he adopted when he first started.

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July 22, 2016 · Filed Under: Artisans, Bakeries, Travel · 3 Comments

Yet again…

Wrought iron leaves

Yet again we grieve for shattered lives and families torn apart. Yet again we wait in anguish for news from family and friends. Yet again my native country is hit. As was my home country repeatedly over the past few weeks. As have many other countries. The world goes reeling from one killing to the next. Punched down and barely standing up again before another murderous blow lands.  [Read more…]

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July 15, 2016 · Filed Under: Events, World events · 8 Comments

Meet The Baker: Luc Poggio

Luc PoggioThis is a different kind of Meet the Baker story. One I wish I never had a chance to write and yet one that warms my heart. Full of sorrow and full of hope. Also, only a short one, hopefully an introduction to a more in-depth version next time I visit Paris. Let me go back in time and explain.

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June 7, 2016 · Filed Under: Artisans · 9 Comments

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