Reviews & Fun Stuff
Here is my first press! This article (linked below) by Jennifer Ferris was in the Sunday, 9/24/06 Chapel Hill Herald. It is used with the permission of The Herald-Sun.
Click here to read the review of my book at www.thefreshloaf.com.
Click here to listen to an interview with me at www.stirthepots.com. There's a list of links to the interviews at the left. I'm afraid I might say "Um" a lot.
And here is a review at the Wild Yeast Blog, along with posted comments about people's worst science class memories: http://www.wildyeastblog.com/2009/05/10/bread-science-giveaway/.
Click here to read Robin Smith's article "The Secret Life of Yeast Breads" in the 1/31/11 Raleigh News and Observer. (It was also in the Charlotte Observer.)
The Bread Baker's Blessing
(We came up with this in the bakery one day, modeling it after the Old Irish Blessing, "May the Road Rise to Meet You...")
May the dough rise to meet you,
May the cloud of flour be always at your back,
May the oven shine warm upon your face,
May the steam fall softly upon your loaves,
And until we meet again,
May God punch-and-fold* you in the palm of His hand.
*Some bakers liked "mold," implying God is shaping you, but I like "fold" or "punch-and-fold" which implies God is punching you down, and adding strength, so that you can rise again, even better than you were before!
Here's a picture of my friend's niece's science fair display on bread science. She and her friends won the science fair! Go bread makers!
Got any fun pictures of bread? Submissions for this page are welcome!
Here are some from my dad, who's retired and has lots of time on his hands. He "took" these pictures of me on "The bread tour."
