May 16, 2016
Muffin and Rye
This is my standard house gift when I’m invited for a meal and ask if I can bring a bread. This one is sourdough rye....
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Books and Breads Blog
May 11, 2016
Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman ** (of 4)
Buck Schatz, an 87-year-old former tough guy cop from Memphis has never dropped his crusty exterior nor belligerent attitude toward bad guys even though he’s...
Read More about Don’t Ever Get Old by Daniel Friedman ** (of 4) May 1, 2016
The Incarnations by Susan Barker *** (of 4)
China, despite its rocket launch into modernity, is still a country of five thousand years of history. As Americans, a people that at best can only recall...
Read More about The Incarnations by Susan Barker *** (of 4) April 8, 2016
Redeployment by Phil Klay *** (of 4)
Phil Klay’s short stories about Marine Corps life in Iraq and after Iraq begin so realistically that I had to check to confirm I was...
Read More about Redeployment by Phil Klay *** (of 4) March 25, 2016
Black Flags by Joby Warrick *** (of 4)
Sadly, so much of the terror that has become ISIS in Iraq, Syria, Yemen, the countries of North Africa and the attacks in Europe are a...
Read More about Black Flags by Joby Warrick *** (of 4) February 28, 2016
Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya ** (of 4)
In the first half of the book, Pasha, an intentionally depressive poet, because without depression there can be no decent poetry, arrives from Odessa to...
Read More about Panic in a Suitcase by Yelena Akhtiorskaya ** (of 4) February 19, 2016
Bread Class
(Click on photos to see full size.) To prepare for our fermentation lab in Soil to Plate I made three jars of Meadville starter for the two...
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell ** (of 4)
I love Sarah Vowell’s hip hop style of writing and she is hooked on an interesting fellow. The Marquis de Lafayette arrived in the American...
Read More about Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell ** (of 4) February 7, 2016
So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell **** (of 4)
This is a tale both microscopic in scope and biblical in scale. The scene is 1920s Illinois before the age of machines and corporations when...
Read More about So Long, See You Tomorrow by William Maxwell **** (of 4) January 29, 2016
A Week of Feasts
Every year around Christmas time, my wife’s brother Marty, flies from Los Angeles to Meadville to cook and bake. He makes main courses of goose...
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