![]() ![]() Her latest release is The Cookie Bible, out this fall just in time for holiday season (and peak cookie season, if you ask me). It's easy to see why - she's the author of an impressive slew of baking books, including The Baking Bible, The Bread Bible, and Rose's Heavenly Cakes. "We call Rose Levy Beranbaum a pastry queen in the introduction for her Deep-Dish All-American Cinnamon Apple Pie recipe, recognized as one of our 40 Best Recipes in 2018. Authors: Greg Wade with Rachel Holtzman. ![]() Full Title: Bread Head: Baking for the Road Less Traveled.This is a book for any baker looking to up their grain game." - Chandra Ram: Associate Editorial Director, Food He spends several pages explaining the science of bread baking, making sure to welcome newbie bakers to the organic grain fold as he proudly explains that bread baked with local and sustainably grown wheat is 'a little rough around the edges, a little louder than is polite, and stupid good.' Equally inspired by wheat farmers and the Grateful Dead (chapter titles include Friends of the Devil, Fire on the Mountain, and Long Strange Trip), Wade encourages readers to relax and enjoy the process as much as the end results of recipes like his A Good White Bread (a work-a-day basic sandwich bread), or the more advanced Chile Polenta Loaf and Oat Madeleines. 'There's magic that happens over the amber waves of southern Illinois wheat fields around sunset in the late summer,' he writes, explaining how spending time on the farm deepened his own journey as a bread baker and motivated him to explore baking with heritage grains instead of conventional flour. Reading the introduction to Bread Head: Science, Alchemy, and Baking for the Road Less Traveled, Wade's new bread baking book written with Rachel Holtzman, took me right back to those sweat-soaked afternoons. Later, we peered into the somewhat primitive outdoor wood-fired oven he had built to check on the caneles he was baking from just-harvested buckwheat. ![]() As we walked through the farm's amaranth fields with Wade, he spoke of how working with freshly milled organic grains had changed him as a baker. We woke early in the morning to harvest squash blossoms before spending the afternoon kneading dough under a blazing August sun. At night, we sat around the fire and talked about fermentation, hiked through the pitch-black woods, then slept in a barn. Wade, the head baker for Chicago's Publican Quality Bread, led about eight of us through two days of discussion about gluten chains followed by dough tutorials. "A few years ago, I spent a couple of days at Spence Farm in rural Illinois, attending Bread Camp run by Greg Wade. There's a memoir in here, too - No Lucks Given from Brother Luck, which Senior Editor Kat Kinsman calls "plenty good food for the soul." We can't wait to break open these books and use them all season long, and we have the feeling you'll love them, too. More into drinks? Pick up Modern Classic Cocktails by Robert Simonson. Or whip up treats that satisfy your "salt tooth" (more on that in a minute) in Erin Jeanne McDowell's Savory Baking. Dive into the history of masa and try out the recipes in Jorge Gaviria's Masa. For our fall 2022 edition, we ended up with a grand total of 28 different books, including Listen to Your Vegetables from Sarah Grueneberg, Nadiya's Everyday Baking from Nadiya Hussain, and Dinner in One from Melissa Clark. Every year, we ask our editors to shout-out the books they're excited about, steadily building a list over the summer in preparation. It seems that many people met their soul mates while at Mack's back in the day & have been married anywhere from 48-52 years now.What's your favorite part of fall? Cooler weather? Changing leaves? Seasonal produce, like pumpkins and cranberries? We love all of those things, too - but another thing we love about this season is the fresh haul of cookbooks we get to leaf through. Mack Eplen's Drivateria at 2626 N 1st in Abilene was "the place to be" on a Friday & Saturday night if you were a teenager back in the '60s-'70s. The Drivateria, Chicken On The Run, the Ticker Tape Coffee Shop, Mack Eplen Cafeteria on Cypress, as well as many more locations including a catering service. It was Leroy that created the "Walking Chef" logo & the slogan "Where Abilene Dines". ![]() My Grandfather, Leroy Eplen did Mack's architectural designs for his restaurants, as well as his advertising. Many of the recipes my Great Uncle Mack used came from my Great Grandmother, Edith White. Most of my family worked with my Great Uncle Mack, including my father, both of his parents (my Grand Parents) & my father's Grand Mother (which would be my Great Grandmother). These restaurants were started by my Great Aunt & Uncle, Mack & Helen Eplen. Although I was not born until 1967, as I grew up, I had always been told how my family had restaurants in Abilene, Texas that were very popular. ![]()
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