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2003-05-24 Mike Rambles On About Gluten Free Bread As I have been looking into starting a bakery here in the mountains of Gunnison, Colorado, I have been told a number of times that a real growth area is in gluten free/wheat free breads. So, I tried some to see what people with Celiac/Sprue are eating […]

2003-05-19 Our “Introduction to Sourdough” Cookbook Is Here! At last the new “Introduction to Sourdough” book is available. Just skip over to the downloads page and you can check it out for free! The recipes are classroom tested, and the book has gotten great response from students in my classes as well as the early

2003-05-15 The Canon is Back! HOORAY!!! My trusty Canon S-10 camera has been repaired and sent back to me by the folks at Canon. (Hint – if your digital camera breaks, check with the manufacturer first, they usually have faster and cheaper service than going through a camera store.) So, that means that the last

2019-04-24 How Embarrassing! Oh, how embarrassing! I’d attributed the 20% Bran Flour ideato Joe Ortiz, who wrote “The Village Baker”, when it should have been attributed to Dan Leader, who wrote “Bread Alone”. Since I haven’t heard from either baker/author’s lawyer, I assume no one noticed, or cared. Still, apologies to both gentlemen, as well

2003-04-22 Lets Catch Up!   WOW!!! Has it been that long? I guess so! Since I last wrote here, we held the “Introduction to Sourdough” class in the Johnson Building Art Gallery. It was great! Six people showed up, and they left with two loaves of wonderful bread each, as well as pizza leftovers. The

2003-03-31 First Class! First Advertiser! ‘ve been putting up signs for the classes all over Gunnison and Crested Butte, and I’ve started getting some phone calls and reservations. More interestingly, I finally had a nibble on the “This Space For Hire” banners we’ve had on this page for a while. Sandi of “Health for You”(*)

March 5, 2003 – Our church had an Ash Wednesday soup and salad supper. The church secretary asked me to bring bread. (It pays to give people bread…. when I was working out the recipe, I gave her a Sourdough King Cake.) For the dinner, I brought two loaves each of my Sourdough Black Bean and Chipotle

February 2, 2003 – My First Breadblog Post OK, great, now I’ve sold out to the powers of darkness, egotistical ravings, and stark madness. In short, I’ve added a blog page to the Sourdough Home. As if anyone cared about my ravings. In this blog, I won’t be boring you with details about who I