Baking education in the U.S. began in the twenty-first century. Doesn’t that seem odd! Baking, after all, is a very old craft. But even in those countries with deep bread traditions, formal education in baking began only after World War II. The U.S. has a bread tradition of sorts. European immigrants opened bakeries here in […]

I told people that I would be out of town this week taking a baking class.  Nearly everyone to whom I said that heard me say, “teaching a baking class.”  That amused me. Some people choose their professions early in life and grow into them.  Doctors, it’s always seemed to me, are comfortable in their […]