A unique Appalachian recipe demands one part history and one part science. John Fahey woke up before dawn and drove thirty miles to The Rising Creek Bakery on the border of Pennsylvania and West ...

When it comes to baking, there’s nothing more satisfying than baking bread from scratch. Hearty, crusty and so delicious, homemade bread is a real treat. But sometimes baking with yeast isn’t such a ...

In the world of fermentation, there’s always something new to discover; start down the path of being interested in microbes and that interest takes you on a journey. That journey spans history. After ...

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KANSAS CITY — Even as consumers turned increasingly to value options in the bread category over the past year, bakers have stepped up their development efforts around a wide range of value-added bread ...

Its smell has been compared to the stink of overripe cheese, rotting tomatoes, dirty socks, but the delegation of bakers who make salt-rising bread still agree: You want to wake up to it! You want it ...

It’s notoriously finicky. It takes the best part of two days to prepare: First, you prepare the starter, then the sponge, then the dough. Some say that it smells like unwashed feet, or malodorous ...

When it comes to baking, there’s nothing more satisfying than baking bread from scratch. Hearty, crusty and so delicious, homemade bread is a real treat. But sometimes baking with yeast isn’t such a ...