A multigrain bread recipe will open the new year for a reason. Will Turnage (aka @wubbahed), Donna and I finished and submitted to Apple last week a bread baking app for iPad. It’s time finally to act on a fascinating email I got from a baker in North Carolina about bagel making. And Shuna privately but with her own inimitable force and clarity begged to differ on my take on English Muffins. And just yesterday a reader emailed, pleading for a good all-purpose gluten-free bread recipe. So it’s now officially bread baking month here, when the cold and early darkness are subdued by a hot heart and hands-on kitchen work. (And yes, kneading should be a part of the process—it’s part of the goodness of bread, mediation through kneading. It’s also fun.) The holidays are Read On »