BiscuitBaker.com
Title
Baking is for everyone!
Description
Excerpted from the website:
- About me, an introduction...
- What about me? Well, my name is Christian and I enjoy baking. I live in the Lehigh Valley area of Pennsylvania. I'm married and a father of four. I started baking as a pastime after buying and reading "Brother Juniper's Bread Book" by Peter Rinehart. This book was a great inspiration to me. Mr. Rinehart has baked for many years and was a member of a religious order. He now teaches at Johnson & Wales University. You see, he approaches baking with the temperment of a monk. To him it's a meditative exercise as much as it is a way to produce a loaf of bread. With guidance and instructions from his book and others, I've been able to make some great treats for friends, neighbors and co-workers. Now, when I feel awkward at a large gathering, (and there's no football on TV) I can go to the kitchen and start baking and stop feeling so self-conscious. I think that baking is a kind of therapy for me really, a way to connect with the people in my life, rather than staying alone and apart in my own thoughts. Other books, like the Tassajara Bread Book, The Cheeseboard Bakery Cookbook, the Bread Builders, the Moosewood Restaurant Dessert Book have been continuing guideposts for me. The authors of these books talk about ingredients and the process of baking almost as if it were a sacrament. (again the religious conotation) Edward Brown, author of "Tassajara" is a buddhist monk in California, so there you go. I only wish I'd found out about these books and this community of bakers many years earlier, because there's a real sense of purpose when I'm in the kitchen, making some of the worlds best brownies for some lucky friends.
Languages
English
