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Homemade Bagels Are a Breeze!
Here is a bagel recipe worthy of the best New York or Jersey deli from a baker in Boone, North Carolina. Bruce Ezzell commented on this blog ages ago and elicited a discussion about bagels, which led to his inspiring journey from being laid off to opening his own bakery. professional baker. I'll let Bruce, @thebreadlist on Twitter, tell the story.—M.R.
by Bruce Ezzell
I've been baking for 20 years now. Five years professionally from 1989-1994, then what I called 'sanity baking' after that. Newly married, kids on the way, I had to find work that gave me a steady paycheck so I left baking for new careers. The 'economic downturn' changed things for me. I lost my job as the office manager of a high-end construction company in January 2009. Boone, NC, ...
Posted in Bread, Breakfast, Guest Post, Recipes, Technique Tagged bagel recipe, bagels, bread, Bruce Ezzell, bucky dough, Malt Syrup, Owl Creel Breadworks, recipe Comments closed
Video: Inuit Mussel Harvest
Posted in Article, Seafood Tagged BBC, canada, dangerous mussel harvest, inuits harvest mussels Comments closed
Charcuterie & Polcyn
Posted in Article, Charcutepalooza, Charcuterie, chefs Tagged brian polcyn, charcuterie, crain's detroit, detroit, economics of charcuterie Comments closed
Consomme Forgotton
Posted in Article, Elements of Cooking, Soups, Technique Tagged clarified broth, consomme, Hank Shaw, recipe, the atlantic Comments closed
Bocuse d’Or—Post Game
Just returned to snowy Clevelandtown, a twenty-two hour haul from Lyon via Heathrow and O’Hare, thinking all the while on the Bocuse d’Or competition and feeling bad for Team USA, and wondering what to make of it all.
“This was a tough one to swallow,” Chef Kaysen wrote in an email, hours after the competition. “I think I need some months to really draw all the inspiration that was seen there. I realized in the beginning of the day after seeing both Denmark and Sweden that we did not play the game—we went there and did our food, we did what we thought was right because we loved it so much, but clearly there is a defined game in the way that food that ...
Posted in chefs, Competition, Food Adventure, Travel Tagged all-clad, Bocuse d’Or, Chef Kaysen, france, Geranium, Joshua David Stein, lyon, Rasmus Kofoed Comments closed














