Bold Baking Academy: All About Bread

Flour, water, time and heat: this is bread, all over the world. The flour can be wheat or a different grain. The time can be minutes or days. It is both commonplace and utterly unique to different cultures and traditions. It is connected to fairy tales, folklore, history, politics, war, religion and ceremonies, and it is perhaps the closest we can come to a universal language of food. One day I hope to know every one of the countless techniques and types of bread, but for this class, I will be focusing on three of my favorite methods.