My workplace gave us employees a phone call a few weeks ago. “Come back to work!” I am now acting as both the morning baker as well as lunch and evening chef, as we are trying to save on bread. Why? We are only at 25-percent capacity using outdoor...
My kitchen crew has consisted of two full time cooks and a chef – me. We just got to hire another full time cook, now our “newbie.” Like me he’s an Army veteran. But he served in Iraq while my service was in Germany. It’s great to have...
Baking bread is second nature to me, all but at work… mercurial temperatures, staff, and time can get the better of my skills, where I decided to not even try, till I hit on some good yeast and fermentation this year. Trick is to let the fermentation take...
Here's a levain raised in an uneven often mercurial environment, my work kitchen. The results were sliced and toasted for the first spring wine dinner…Break bread and prosper.
You can’t imagine my delight when looking over a party plan at work, I saw that a favorite group of musicians were scheduled to perform at my club. The Krockodiloes are a Harvard-based acapella group that travels around the world. I actually first heard them...
