Best Trip Ever

Since I spent most of yesterday alternately napping and reading Julia Child’s My Life in France (it’s a wonderful book, by the way), I’ve been thinking about French food.
I really don’t know very much at all about the kind of formal French cuisine she talks about, but I love simple French food, the cheese, the [...]

OK, enough is enough. Over the past four days, I’ve put 8 (small) baguettes in the freezer, and we’ve eaten most of four.
I’m sure I could make 60 more and continue to improve my results, but I’ve got to stop eating so much bread!
Here’s what I’ve learned.
For me, without professional skills in handling the [...]

A few weeks ago, challenged by a Slowtalk message board conversation where a few people didn’t think it could be done, I decided to see if I could make a good French baguette. I’d tried before, with very mediocre results (pale, dense loaves that tasted OK but resembled baguettes only by being long [...]