Baguettes made with levain are on my menu for my microbakery, though quite a small amount ordered compared to sweet breads, I still make an added one for me, my pain quotidien. By lucky chance meeting boulanger and patissiere Gregoire Michaud in New York recently, I...
Quite often people tell me they don't "get" my enjoyment of baking sourdough bread. "I don't like sourdough" they'll tell me, then admit the truth. Their fear that "it's kind of complicated, all the steps." But that's just it; letting the natural forces of the starter...
Times a wasting! Not having had a decent piece of bread in weeks, I thought the best way to quench my craving was to start baking. I had three levains in the fridge. The liquid and solid levains took a single feeding to awaken, perhaps because I had fed them quite...
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