B...is for Bread!

This week I am on the bread station. We make bread to be served in the restaurant and for a variety of other uses. I think that the smell of fresh baked bread, or even the yeasty smell of rising bread is among the greatest smells in the world. It just smells fresh, and homey. The kind of smell that makes you feel like everything is going to be alright.

Anyway, so far we've made sourdough, marbled rye, French baguettes, Italian, Foccacia, honey whole wheat, bagels, hot dog buns, hamburger buns, and pizza dough to name a few. Tomorrow we are braiding Challah and we have many more in the works.

I found a bunch of great quotes about bread and since other people are so much more eloquent than me...please enjoy!

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.”James Beard (1903-1985)

“There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.”Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)

"How can a nation be great if its bread tastes like Kleenex?"Julia Child

"Bread is the warmest, kindest of all words. Write it always with a capital letter, like your own name." Anonymous

"Without bread all is misery." William Cobbett, British journalist (1763-1835)

"Bread is like dressed, hats and shoes -- in other words, essential!"Emily Post

“If thou tastest a crust of bread, thou tastest all the stars and all the heavens.” Robert Browning (1812-1889) English poet

"I am going to learn to make bread to-morrow. So you may imagine me with my sleeves rolled up, mixing flour, milk, saleratus, etc., with a deal of grace. I advise you if you don't know how to make the staff of life to learn with dispatch."Emily Dickinson, American poet (1830-1886)

I really love that last one from Emily Dickinson. Think of ME tomorrow with my sleeves up, covered in flour, making bread. And if you don't know how, learn with "dispatch." It isn't nearly as hard as it seems. It just takes a little patience and a little time, as most worthwhile things do.