Making breads must be a disease like any other addiction. You don't want to stop once you get going.
We just planted a baby avocado tree in our backyard. A big storm last November uprooted one of our jacaranda trees and there was a spot available. It will be years before our avocado bears fruit if it survives, but I am getting ahead of my game and practising my skill.
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I am a sucker for vivid colors. Last year when I was in Japan on my self-guided pastry eating tour, I discovered a brioche bread with bright red candy almonds at Susumu Koyama's gorgeous pastry shop in Santien, two hours southwest of Kyoto. It's hard to believe EVERY morning people from all over the country queue up in front of [url=http://www.es-koyama.com/]Patissier es Koyama[/url] in this small city, waiting for it to open its door, much like that in front of [url=
There is a bakery in my neighbourhood called Baker's Delight which is a chain all around Brisbane. They have a bread with a surface that looks like mottled skin of a tiger and it's called Tiger's Bread! It looks most unusual and every time I walked past that bakery I wondered how it got that spotted skin on top.
The method of these two sourdough breads came from Bolangerie Comme Chinois' head chef, Nishikawa Takaaki, in Kobe, Japan. His most recent cook, "Varie" (i.e., variety breads) is one of the most amazing books of modern French breads I have ever read. For over many decades Japan has had dedicated chefs working and training in France; they then went back to Japan to not only spread the French bread culture but also to enrich their own. The breads and pastry shops in Japan are simply wonderful. In 2002 Japan won the tri
Chinese had been poor throughout history. It's customary to greet people, "Have you eaten?" Up until recently, when I had to call someone on the phone, the first thing I said was, "Have you had lunch (or dinner)?" This is my hello, how's it going sort of greetings. Lately I've found that must have sounded absurd to people. I ran into Carol, our neighbour, and two (or should I say, three) nice looking lady friends of hers saying good-bye to each other at our cul-de-sac around mid-day today. What did I say?
