The pastry above is layered with chocolate pastry cream, flan, and on top, a very whimsical patisserie (pastry shop) in the Marais district in Paris has placed jelly beans, candy blackberries, and a little pile of minced pistachio. For some reason, I seem to find the need to put a baguette in every picture. My […]
This is a flat bread made with an enriched dough, topped with sautéed onions, sprinkled with poppy seeds and drizzled in olive oil. Okay, so many many years ago when the pletztel was in the height of fashion, it was done with dough slightly less decadent than brioche and the oil used was less exotic […]
New York’s a great bread town; its best bakeries are really world class. But if you start sampling restaurants not neccesarily known for their bread, it gets kind of variable. It’s a real disappointment to sit down to a week of great restaurant meals in one of the world’s great food cities, and find that […]
BluPrint/Craftsy video: click here for a preview and purchase! Our book tour for The New Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day was great fun! Here are some of our TV and radio appearances: National Public Radio’s “The Splendid Table,” with Lynne Rossetto Kasper, March 8, 2014: Jeff talked about the new book, and how we got started on […]
October 12, 2021, 7:00 to 8:30pm – Jeff will be signing books at Magers and Quinn Booksellers, Minneapolis’s finest independent bookstore (3038 Hennepin Av.), with samples of bread from The Best of Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day. December 11, 2018, 6:00 to 8:30pm – Three 15 minute demos, and then talking bakeware at […]