Whether you’re baking your first loaf or still learning, tools like a Dutch oven , stand mixer or $5 bench scraper make things a lot earlier to manage. You can also try a sourdough starter kit for ...

Have you ever tasted bread baked in a wood-fired earth oven? Conventional gas and electric ovens use only hot air to bake bread. Earth ovens, on the other hand, absorb heat within their walls and ...

Christ said, “I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me shall not hunger.” He didn’t mention pizza, but a handful of churches in Minnesota are building outdoor community brick ovens to serve the ...

In 1990, I left my desk job to become a bread baker. Not that I was an expert, although I’d spent plenty of time in restaurant kitchens and traveled in Europe and San Francisco enough to know what I ...

Sam Coates-Finke wore a baseball hat, a white apron and scuffed work-boots. With black-rimmed glasses he looked into a pot of boiling oil, waiting. "Is it ready?" a child asked. Along with a couple of ...

Many people took up bread baking during the pandemic, leading some to rely on Dutch ovens or bread machines to make loaves. And Le Creuset recently released a new piece of cookware designed to help ...

The artisanal bread movement has been slower to gain traction here in Los Angeles than, say, in San Francisco or New York. There are as many variables to a great bread scene as there are to the great ...

Bread has long been part of our staple diet. But little is known about the origins of bread-making. Until now, the oldest evidence of bread came from Turkey, more than 9,000 years ago. Scientists have ...