sharishaw49's blog

After some dispiriting failures (the Paul Hollywood organic apple starter, the Pineapple Juice solution), I have three new contenders: George Greenstein's rye sour, Maurizio Leo's rye starter, and Chef Rachida's interpretation of Kristen's starter from Full Proof Baking. Hopefully one of them will thrive. I'm pretty sure I'll be baking Jewish Rye Bread tomorrow--although that bread is not sourdough. Once I get a viable starter, I'm shooting for the moon. I've seen such wonderful posts lately that I cannot wait to get going.

My father, Norman Horwitz, was a renaissance man. He was a medical nuclear physicist, at the forefront of the fight against cancer. Outside of work, Norm was an inventor and trendsetter. Among his passions were cooking and baking. From an early age I would find issues of Gourmet magazine around his reading chair. At the end of a year or so, my Dad had the issues bound at a book bindery. I remember how tempting those fat volumes were, sitting so properly on their shelf in his library. I loved to look through the glossy pages of these precious volumes.