April 5, 2015
5-Grain
I know it’s Pesach so no I did not make this bread this weekend. Made these two a couple of weeks ago: oats, flax, whole...
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Books and Breads Blog
March 22, 2015
The Property by Rutu Modan **** (of 4)
Modan is part of the first generation of Israeli graphic novelists. In The Property, an elderly Israeli grandmother returns to Poland with her granddaughter to...
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Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson **** (of 4)
After a couple of decades of living in Britain, Bill Bryson decides to journey around the country one last time before moving with his family back...
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Swim by Lynn Sher ** (of 4)
Includes everything you ever wanted to know about swimming: Greek mythology; the history of swimsuits and swimming pools; the beauty of open water swimming and...
Read More about Swim by Lynn Sher ** (of 4) March 15, 2015
The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith *** (of 4)
Let’s begin with the fact that I picked up the book after the world discovered that Robert Galbraith was a pseudonym for J.K. Rowling. I can’t...
Read More about The Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith *** (of 4) February 22, 2015
The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert *** (of 4)
Well, someone has to tell it like it is and Kolbert lays it out there as clearly as anyone possibly can. She travels the world,...
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A little time in the oven
A pair of raisin walnut loaves made with whole wheat starter. Dense and chewy, not too heavy, sweet from the raisins, salty from the dough....
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The Alienist by Caleb Carr ** (of 4)
In the 1890s, Theodore Roosevelt did not yet have presidential ambitions. As a young man he was trying to sweep corruption from the halls of New...
Read More about The Alienist by Caleb Carr ** (of 4) January 25, 2015
52 Loaves by William Alexander *** (of 4)
52 Loaves is one of those memoirs where a guy sets out to do something a little ridiculous, bumbles along, has silly adventures, and learns...
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