“We have learned to see in bread an instrument of community between men – the flavor of bread shared has no equal.”
What ARE “Sticks” Of Butter? As confusing as cups are to people who don’t use them, which is to say virtually everyone not in the USA, the notion of “Sticks of butter” is even more so. In the USA, butter is normally packaged in 1 pound (454 gram) packages. The packages are usually divided into …
2019-05-26 A Message of Mantras and Memes Years ago my son was taking martial arts classes, and he was doing pretty well. He learned the katas (training exercises) and it was a joy to watch him. He did light sparring with the kids in his dojo and did quite well. And then, one day, the …
2019-06-30 – Another delicate matter…. Or, Everything you know is wrong! Or, is it? That was the title of one of my favorite Firesign Theatre records. Remember records? Remember sitting around the stereo? Ahhh.. memories… anyway, let’s talk about some sourdough beliefs and misbeliefs! There seem to be two major camps in the sourdough community. …
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Downloads Skip forward to: Our books, Mike’s Bread Spreadsheets, the three stage calculator, or Mike’s bread worksheet For some time our “Introduction to Sourdough” booklet was our hottest download. The book was, and still is, an integral part of our “Introduction to Sourdough” class, and the recipes have been student tested. However, we pulled it off …
Three Stage Pain Au Levain, Pain au Levain, revisited This note picks up where the Three Stage French Bread (Pain au levain) note left off. If you haven’t read it, I encourage you to do so now. At the end of the previous note, I was left with a bread that was quite, quite dense, …
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2019-08-30 POP! Goes The Starter! A quick apology. Friend of the newsletter, Dennis McCanna had some trouble replying to the last email I sent out. But, he persevered and together we unraveled a long standing issue. When we changed ISP’s we had to change our email addresses from mail.otherwhen.com to just otherwhen.com. We thought we’d …