During the pandemic, I ventured on foot to my former Long Island city neighborhood. This former industrial stretch of Queens is now a hipster neighborhood. The bad side? Rising rents. The good side, several breweries offering delicious beers including Fifth Hammer...
With heightened attention being paid to bread baking in quarantine, I have made time to up my game by adapting more formulas, and trying to bake at a slower speed. Patience and study are not qualities that come easily to a always-pressured chef. Rushing to produce...
Zev Robinson is an artist and filmmaker who explores bread, food and wine. We have been talking to each other during the Pandemic via Zoom. He agreed to allow me to post one of our talks.
Four years ago I tried to make a batch of Jerusalem-style bagels. They were far from stellar. The other day, Lior Lev Secarz emailed me a recipe for these bagels on which he swore. He got them from chef Mike Salomonov, author of the restaurant and book known as Zahav....
Grissini are classic bread sticks. Years ago working as a cook at the Sony Club, we made them in-house. Actually the job was reserved for the intern cook. At the time, it seemed a torturous process, maybe because you had to get them done before lunch. Years later I...
The 20th century had biker gangs. Well, the 21st century war against Covid inspired baker gangs. My friend Thierry has a new one. Bro Members (bread) is a collection of world wide bakers confined by the quarantined to baking at home! Here's how we tough bakers...
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