Word of mouth led me to Darrold and Marty Glanville, the husband and wife team who own and run the Sunrise Flour Mill out of North Branch, Minnesota. Incidentally, it's also a Unifine Mill, but more on that later. Anyway, after getting to know them via...
I first met baker Sara Owens through my blog. Since both of us live in New York City, she invited me over one afternoon to her apartment to join her in baking some sourdough loaves. I still remember that conversation. I also remember how it seemed her own...
Early in our history, Stir the Pots interviewed Dan Lepard, someone who helped shape my entire baking approach. Then somehow we lost the interview on the site. So I reached out to Dan to fill out a written interview questionnaire, he kindly obliged. How did you...
Justin Dean is a food wizard. I heard about him through my former sous-chef Bob del Grosso. Justin interested me because of his multi-skilled abilities. Not just a chef, Justin is an expert in the nuances of fermentation. A few weeks ago, I invited him...
For me, Carlo Di Cristo is the bread baker version of a Rorschach test. Looking at his baking opens up my imagination while testing my sense of what's possible. This Italian wizard from Napoli's SoulCrumbs cafe caught my attention with the holey-art he creates in...
Robert Segovia-Welsh and me are very different guys. He lives in the ancient woods of North Carolina. I live in an ancient apartment building in central Queens. He plays the banjo. I play poker. He's a dad with kids. Me and my wife, we have cats. He runs his own...
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