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Why Would Anyone Be a Baker?
When I started making Our Daily Bread, a couple of years ago now, I had thought of using the blues as a metaphor for baking – bread has three essential ingredients (flour, water, salt – and the natural yeasts found … Continue reading
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Tagged baking, baking courses, Bodiam, bread, bread courses, high Weald, Lighthouse, Lighthouse Bakery, Liz Weisberg, Nappy Valley, Rachel Duffield, Sussex
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Apple and Green Tomato Chutney
One of my favourite old Sussex terms is ‘brencheese friend.’ A brencheese or ‘bread and cheese friend’ is a friend who’ll stick with you whether you feed him a feast or share with him your simplest provisions. Likewise a true … Continue reading
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Tagged apple and green tomato chutney, apple and green tomato pickle, Ashydown Forrester, bread, brencheese friend, Brightling, Brother Michael, Burwash Rose, cheese, chutney, chutney recipe, high Weald, High Weald Dairy, Lord of the Hundreds, Mad Jack Fuller, pickle, recipe, Stonegate, Sussex, Sussex Dialect, Traditional Cheese Dairy
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The Bread of Nations. Our Daily Bread – Episode 4
Welcome to thirteen and a half minutes of pure self indulgence. Don’t get me wrong. So much came out of my travels around Europe that there’s hardly room to draw breath. Nope, it’s just that it simply doesn’t count as … Continue reading
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Tagged Augustow, BBC Radio 4, Bekerei Zimmerman, bread, Bread Museum, Christophe Vasseur, Cologne, Cornell University, Cyprian Kamil Norwid, Dan Schickentanz, Dominique Saibron, France, Germany, Goethe, Heinrich Boll, Jan Matejko, Jonathan Kent, Katarzyna Zechenter, Krakow, Muzeum Chleba, Our Daily Bread, Paris, Poland, Professor Steven Kaplan, Radzionków, Stefan Batory, Steven Kaplan, The Bread of Nations, The Polish Bakery, Walter Borchert
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The Bread of Life. Our Daily Bread – Episode 3
Let me tell you something: I had no idea how busy bishops are. Of course it’s no surprise that they have a lot on but they are tyrannised by their diaries. They’re booked up six months ahead. So there was … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Radio 4, Bishop of Oxford, bread, bread and faith, Christianity, Dan Schickentanz, de Gustibus, Eton College, faith, Islam, John Pritchard, Jonathan Kent, Jonathan Romain, Judaism, Maidenhead Synagogue, Monawar Hussein, Our Daily Bread, real bread, Resurgence, Satish Kumar, sin eater, St Mary's Kidlington
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Our Daily Bread (Live, Love, Larf & Loaf)
It’s almost here. Our Daily Bread runs next week on BBC Radio 4 at 1.45pm, just after the World at One. The programme has been almost two years in the making. It was originally commissioned at the end of June … Continue reading
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Tagged BBC Radio 4, bread, Jonathan Kent, Our Daily Bread, radio series
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Hot From The Oven
One of the things that led me to make ‘Our Daily Bread’ was a phone conversation with a baker. It was thirteen or fourteen years ago now. I was working at the BBC in Oxford and the title of ‘baker … Continue reading
Bread, Church and History: Krakow
This is a long overdue post. Back in September I visited Radzionków outside Katowice in southern Poland to record part of a programme for Our Daily Bread as the radio series is tentatively titled. The contrast between Katowice and Krakow … Continue reading
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Tagged bakery, bread, Katarzyna Zechenter, Krakow, Poland, sourdough, St Andrew's Krakow, St Mary's Basilica
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Czarny Chleb i Czarna Kawa
(Black Bread and Black Coffee) It’s been an exhilarating two or three weeks with three excursions to different parts of Europe in search of the stories that bread has to tell. After Cologne my next stop was southern Poland. I … Continue reading
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Tagged Agnes Gabriel, baking, bread, Bread Museum, Katowice, Piotr Mankiewicz, Poland, Polish traditions, Radzionków, sourdough
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Cologne, Bread and Serendipity
Without giving too much away my adventures in bread took me yesterday to Cologne (or Köln as it properly is in German). There I met up with my old friend Dan Schickentanz, a.k.a. Dan DeGustibus and with Michael Zimmermann to … Continue reading
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Tagged Bäckerei Zimmermann, bread, Cologne, Dan Schickentanz, DeGustibus, Köln, Michael Zimmermann, Percy Jack, sourdough
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