White wheat flour has only been getting attention for few years in the States. It is, quite simply, a white strain of wheat which when milled yields a whole wheat flour that’s far paler than traditional whole wheat flour. Historically, American agriculture has produced two basic strains of wheat: hard red wheat and soft red […]
READ ONNo, the whole wheat berry isn’t just ground up and put into a sack, if that’s what you were thinking. OK, sure, it can be like that at some boutique low-production mills, but commercially speaking, whole wheat flour is made in exactly the same way regular white flour is made. The difference is that after […]
READ ONNothing like a three-day weekend to help a person get a little perspective back. Truth be told, I wasn’t traveling on business last Friday, but rather meeting with my father and sister to retrace a little family history, back in our ancestral homelands. No, not Chicago, though that’s where my mother’s family has lived for […]
READ ONLooks like I’ll be traveling all day Friday. Back with more on whole wheat bread on Monday!
READ ONGood question, reader Bob! A soaker is pretty much what it sounds like: whole grains, flour, or a combination thereof that’s mixed with water or milk and left to steep for as little as a few hours, or as much as a few days. I suppose the real question is: what’s the purpose of a […]
READ ONIt’s said that if you’re going to steal, you might as well steal from the best. So I did. This is recipe is from Peter Reinhart’s Whole Grain Breads, a book that every serious or aspiring bread baker should own (along with all his other books). I’ll be making the 100% whole wheat version of […]
READ ONSo, what can you do with a whole wheat berry? Well, you can eat it as it is, though that’s a chewing-intensive experience that frequently results in indigestion. You can cook it then eat it, which can be a very nice experience indeed. Or, if you want to greatly expand the possible culinary uses of […]
READ ONGiven all the pressure I’ve been receiving to do a true whole wheat bread, I’m officially caving. Whole wheat sandwich bread it is!
READ ONHeck, I’m in. The good folks over at Amano Chocolate have put out the world that they’re sponsoring a chocolate giveaway to promote the release of one of their new artisan chocolates. All you have to do is go to their site and try to guess which country their latest batch of cacao beans came […]
READ ONNo, not The Colonel. Though we may well get around to that particular homonym one of these days. He’s literally an institution here in Lousiville, and is in fact buried not a mile from where I’m sitting at this very moment. They say he was a very genial man who also cussed like a sailor. […]
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