By Gretchen McKay From Pittsburgh Post-Gazette May 2—During the early days of the pandemic, when everyone seemed to start baking bread at home, I began to wonder. Old-school and artisan bakeries produce really excellent bread. Why not just buy it, as people have done for generations? I understand the whys of the bread baking obsession…
Baby Born Weighing Less Than a Loaf of Bread and Given Only 10 Percent Survival Chance, Celebrates First Birthday
A baby born weighing less than a loaf of bread and given only a 10 percent chance of survival is thriving now and has celebrated her first birthday. Lauren Ormston, 27, from Hartley Wintney, Hampshire, in southeast England found out that she and her fiance, truck driver Oliver Dewey, 32 were expecting their first child…
Don’t Toss Your Old Bread
Spring cleaning is a refreshing and cathartic ritual, and the kitchen is a great place to begin. Clean out the refrigerator, toss any items with long-past use-by dates, and refresh those old spices parked in a drawer. As you fill your trash and recycling bins, keep one exception in mind: Under no circumstances should you…
PHOTOS: Navy Officer-Turned-Artist Handcrafts Wool Felt Gifts That Are Too Cute to Resist
March 30, 2023
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A Taiwanese military veteran is now a renowned needle felting expert who handcrafts her signature art pieces, replicas of the popular breakfast bread—the polo bun or pineapple bun—and much more, bringing art to our daily lives. Lei Hsiao-Chen, a native of Taoyuan County, Taiwan, developed an interest in art at an early age. Her love…
Why We Need to Treat Whole Grains With Respect
February 28, 2023
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With the dawn of the industrial age, white flour—once available only to the wealthy—became available to all. By the early 1900s, white bread had largely replaced “coarse” whole-grain bread, and white flour added to sugar and spices resulted in the proliferation of cakes, donuts, and pastries in the diets of both the rich and poor….
Eating Toast—Harm to Health May Outweigh Convenience
Bread, in its many forms, be it waffles, pancakes, croissants, or the comfortable slice (or stack) of toast, is an easy go-to for many busy people—but according to some experts, bread is not easy to digest, and eating too much may harm the body. Dr. Fukushima Masatsugu, a Japanese gastroenterologist, asserts in his book “Don’t…
Sister Schubert’s Dinner Rolls: A Southern Baking Tradition
All it took was a worn-out and wooden kitchen stool. When Patricia “Sister” Schubert was a child, she climbed onto a rickety stool and helped her grandmother, whom she called Grammy, make bread rolls. She learned from an early age that food not only fills your hungry stomach but has the power to bring families…
Think Outside the Bread Box
This article is the third in a three-part series on gluten-related health conditions and the gluten-free diet. The first article in the series is “When Gluten-Free Eating is the Best Medicine.” The second article in the series is, “Why Have Wheat and Gluten Become So Problematic?” If you eat a gluten-free diet or want to try one, it’s…
How to Make Wild Yeast Water Bread
There’s a kind of magic to bread baking. The simplest of ingredients—grain and water—come together to form a stodgy but pliant dough, which, with the help of an invisible-to-us force that we now know to be yeast, rises and bakes into crusty loaves with an airy, delicate crumb. While some modern nutritionists and wellness influencers…
Easy to Make Sourdough Starter Recipe
When I first got into Traditional Food in 2001, I pretty much had to make anything and everything myself. The reason is because there were few companies (and none in my local area) that made the type of food I was seeking. Worse, few people understood what I was even talking about! This was true…
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