Every meal -- any meal, even a loaf of bread -- can offer the opportunity for deeper connection, for a communion for people of every faith or of no particular faith at all. Bread is a food shared by every culture. It is a unifier. Combine a few simple ingredients, and it rises.
Cookbooks can make our mouths water, teach us about different foods and inspire us to get moving in the kitchen -- that's why we love them. As food ed...
There are lots of ways to make bread at home, but my favorite is Jim Lahey's no-knead method. Whenever I make it, I feel like a magician, taking a meal full of gaps and making it into an abundant whole.
These are exactly the questions I asked when I was her age, when I wouldn't have been able to identify a Dutch oven; when I bypassed recipes because they called for an exotic ingredient called chicken stock; when I almost ordered sweetbreads thinking they were some form of pastries.
These are some truly choice answers taken from an audio interview I recently did with Canadian actor John Dunsworth, who played Jim Lahey in the famed Trailer Park Boys TV/movie franchise.
Parenting site Babble, recently visited Sullivan Street Bakery and made pizza with owner Jim Lahey. They show how simple it can be to make your own p...
And he basically said it sucked, then waxed philosophic. From Ozersky.tv, some highlights, and the video, below:
"Extremely gummy, under-fermented, u...