On the weekend while I was trying for the umpteenth time to find comprehensible words to express the power and versatility of biestmilch, and while I was struggling to find these words, I took a break and listened to this talk of Peter Reinhart and was thrilled. A vague feeling crept into me that this had something to do with our beloved biestmilch. Bread is stapel food for people all over the world, it belongs to the essentials of human life, it is full of myths and it is science, it is nature and it is man made… the art of making bread reveals traditions, beliefs and science.
Reinhard’s talk made me happy because it shows in a wonderful way presented by a brilliant brain how the process of baking bread can be seen, if one pays attention to it, analyzes it and doesn’t take it for granted, if the scientific knowledge we have is applied to it without forgetting the metaphoric power of bread. Continue Reading →