We’re very excited about the residential baking course we are running at Chanstone Court in Hereford - and we only need eight of you to make it happen. It’s a wonderful place to spend the weekend, even if you’re more interested in eating than in baking, with plenty of country walks, great pubs, and local [...]
December 3, 2010
Just before the year whizzes completely past in a flurry of flour and snow, we want to update any Dear Readers, and thank quite a lot of you too. This summer saw us back in Dalmatia, where Dragan hails from, holidaying on islands like Mljet, where we baked our first ‘fire bread’. We got the [...]
May 10, 2010
On May 1st we celebrated our first year baking for Wolvercote – a celebration involving balloons, fairy cakes for all our regular customers and a mammoth 12-hour baking session with a variety of different breads. We have come a long way in the last twelve months, making most progress during a day learning from expert baker [...]
January 15, 2010
The Campaign for Real Bread Conference, held in Oxford in November 2009, highlighted a number of important issues, including how the big supermarket chains (with the connivance of government) are undermining both the social and nutritional values of our daily bread: fewer bakers, fewer millers, GM farming … unlisted ingredients ….mass medication through the toast [...]
October 6, 2011
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