Tag Archives: Dan Schickentanz

Companionship. Our Daily Bread – Episode 5

Choosing a favourite episode is a little like choosing amongst one’s children.  One doesn’t want to have favourites.  However if I was pressed I think the one that is just a little more rosy cheeked than the others is ‘Companionship’. I listen to … Continue reading

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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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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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A Half-Baked History of the World in Seven Loaves – Our Daily Bread, Episode 1

If you’re here then I guess there’s a good chance you’ve been listening to the first episode of ‘Our Daily Bread’ on Radio 4.  Welcome. If you want to complain let me direct you to the customer services department at … Continue reading

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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

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Le Maître Boulanger

Late last month I caught the Eurostar to Paris to interview Professor Steve Kaplan.  The memorable morning we spent wandering around the city deserves a post of its own.  Watch this space. However before I left the city Steve insisted … Continue reading

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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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