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! Book touring and doing TV spots was great fun… dozens of them around the US in regional markets, but many of them aren’t “live” forever. Let me know if you stumble on one that intrigues you. There’s a YouTube channel, all those are “live.” Here are some […]
(photo by Stephen Scott Gross) … and I figured out how to make great bread with only five minutes a day of active time investment. My BreadIn5 books, with over one million copies in print, will show you how. The Secret? Homemade stored dough, refrigerated for up to two weeks. You’ll mix enough dough for […]
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 […]