Fed Up With Dull Bread

Peter Rukavina

Oliver, G. and I went out to Morell this morning to the Morell branch of the [[Provincial Library]] for their book sale. While G. spent hours and hours (okay, it was only 20 minutes) porting over their wares, Oliver and I made a quick in and out and spent the rest of the time in the excellent children’s section reading Arthur and Franklin books.

We did not come away empty handed though. For $1.00 we purchased We Live in Denmark:

Cover of We Live in Denmark book

This is a book for children in a series of “We Live In…” books that includes 15 other countries. Each double-page spread focuses on one “everyday Dane” and their occupation to tell a story about Denmark. We read of Knud the pig farmer, Arne the soldier, Poul the train driver and Kasper the unemployed. My favourite, because it’s so relevant to [[Open Bread]], is from Kjeld Beck, baker:

Quote from Page 49 of We Live in Denmark book

Speaking of [[Open Bread]], there’s some great intelligence gathering from Olle in the discussion section over there. No loaves yet, but the horses are circling.

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I notice you link to a cheese collective. I would recommend making cheese as a lesson in self-sufficiency if only because some of the best-loved sorts are incredibly easy and cheap and better than store bought. The only trouble is you end up with 12 pounds of cream cheese for about 4 bucks and as it is incredibly yummy you have to figure out what to do with it all. I morphed into it from beer mastery but the bread angle from a technical basis is equally sound. In fact a beer, bread and cheese making co-op would be an excellent model. 50% of life’s joys covered off.

Excellent Canadian cheese making gear here: http://glengarrycheesemaking.o…

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