Thursday, June 26, 2008 – And on the other hand, you have more fingers. I’ve been reading Peter Reinhart’s most recent book, “Whole Grain Breads: New Techniques, Extraordinary Flavor.” It is, as you’d expect from Mr. Reinhart, a beautiful book with some great recipes. I’ve enjoyed all the breads I’ve made from the book, and […]
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Sunday May 27, 2007 A Camp Bread 2007 Table of Contents A few people have asked for a concise index or table of contents to the Camp Bread 2007 posts. OK, here you go – The Trip to Camp Bread Camp Bread, Day 0 Camp Bread, Day 1 – Mike Pontificates (yeah, so what’s new?),
Saturday May 26, 2007 Some more reflections on Camp Bread I never finished the blog entries for May 23, 22, and 21. I’m updating them today, and adding some pictures to the blog. I hope you will enjoy it. Expect more changes over the next few days. First a few ironic observations about the hotel
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Wednesday May 23, 2007 The Road Home Again As I type this, I am sitting in the San Francisco airport and realizing I haven’t updated the blog for a number of days. The entries below were all written on the 23rd. To put it simply, by the time I got back to the hotel room,
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Tuesday May 22, 2007 – Camp Bread – Day 3 More time with the rye guy, and the new team is selected! The big surprise of the day was that Jeff Hamelman isn’t German. Sure, he is of German extraction, but he isn’t German. He’s spent time there, he’s learned about rye there, but, he
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Monday May 21, 2007 – Camp Bread, Day 2 You and your oven, and Mike meets the rye guy I was curious about the breakfast the Embassy suites served, and I really wanted to have breakfast with Beth, my better half. So, I had an omelette at the Embassy Suites and then headed off to
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Sunday May 20, 2007 – Camp Bread, Day 1 Mike Pontificates (yeah, so what’s new?), Mike Meets ….. everybody! The day started with breakfast. Every day, the campers eat breakfast and lunch together. Sunday, like most days, the breakfast was catered by Boudin Bakery. They served some excellent pastries, and I had far more pastries, and far less
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Saturday May 19, 2007 – Camp Bread, Day 0 Day zero? Yeah, it was the last setup day and the day the instructors were given their orientation classes. Beth and I got up bright and early and moved from the Homewood Suites to the Embassy Suites. The move wasn’t all that suite. We took the
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Friday May 18, 2007 – The Trip To Camp Bread After the bake night Wednesday night, and resting up on Thursday after the deliveries were complete, it was time to fly to San Francisco. It was amazing! Despite past experiences that had me cringing in anticipation, United Airlines, the only airline that serves our mountain
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2003-08-02 If it’s faster, they will come! It’s amazing… we installed a WiFi link between us and our ISP. Peak Internet is about 1/4 mile away and we have good line of sight. Since installing the high speed link, the number of visits to the web page per day have increased by about 25% since
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2003-08-01 WiFi Link Up and Flour Tests! Say… did I mention that the high speed wireless link to the Internet is back up again? Well, it is. Instead of a wimpy downstream modem, we’re now connected at somewhere between 756,000 and 1,000,000 bits per second. We are so delighted that we’re downloading huge software updates,
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We’re getting closer and closer to opening the bakery. Our zoning hearing is on August 13th, and if all goes well, we’ll start moving in on August 15th. Luckily, we live in Gunnison, Colorado so it won’t be too hot to move. We’re hoping to start production in early September. Once we’re in our own
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