Supper for a buck?

...ike this at an artisinal bakery. It’s even cheaper than crappy supermarket bread. That same night–the night of the question and the math–we had a simple meal: a loaf of this bread, a bowl of beans and a salad from the garden. It was really good and satisfying, and I realized, also very cheap. Dried beans run about $1.50 a pound where we shop. One pound of dry beans makes about 6 cups of cooked beans. That’s a lot of food. I’m not going to try to d...

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Get Baking and Share the Loaves

...aker Bread . Baker’s previous job was in science education which makes him the perfect person to write a baking cookbook. The book is laid out to teach you all that you need to know about bread sequentially. You go from a simple yeasted bread up almost to the Einkorn baguette level. As Josey Baker says, get baking and share the loaves!...

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How do I get started baking bread?

...confusing. Best of all, Baker emphasizes whole grain, sourdough fermented breads. Baker has summarized all the popular methods out there right now in one place. Want to make a New York Times no-knead/Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day type loaf? No problem, that’s the first loaf in Baker’s book. Want to make a Tartine style loaf without reading a hundred pages of directions? No problem, that’s also in the book. Wan’t to graduate on to a style of...

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Learn to Bake Your Own Bread! Fall Classes With Dana Morgan and Linda Preuss

...ed of crappy supermarket bread? Don’t like paying $10 for a loaf of decent bread? How about learning to bake your own bread? I can’t think of any better teachers than my friends Dana Morgan and Linda Preuss. They have three classes coming up: October 22 Tartine-Style Sourdough—30% Whole Grain November 12 100% Whole Grain Breads—Blending Varietal Grains December 10 Baking with Spelt—100% Spelt Breads If that’s not enough incentive, each class break...

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