breadlust

Answer to yesterday's mystery photo: TRIX cereal
(which was more than 46% sugar when it was introduced by
General Mills in 1954).


Ok, so I admit I'm a polite bread snob.

Polite because I'll eat any kind of bread without complaining (except for Wonder Bread). A snob because I generally find typical store-bought plain sandwich bread all pretty tasteless, made interesting only by the ingredients one puts inside the sandwich. Give me actual flavour! Flax seed and rye! Chewy crusts to sink one's teeth into!

My fave: fresh-baked San Francisco style sourdough. I am ashamed to admit that I turn into a gibbering, drooling breadlust fiend when it comes to sourdough. I was overcome by a terrible sourdough craving late yesterday afternoon, went to the market to get some and could barely wait to unload my other groceries before I attacked the loaf. It was not a pretty sight.

I love trying different types of bread. So far, my favourites are sourdough, pumpernickle, and caraway rye, but I like almost any type of freshly-baked homemade bread. I remember my mom used to make loaves of white bread and cut thick slices for us kids so we could slather on boatloads of butter and stuff them in our faces. The fragrance of fresh-baked bread still sends me dreaming.

When Jeff and I lived out in the country, I actually did used to bake my own bread from time to time, but didn't find the bread quality worth the effort it took to pound and knead, and the messy clean-up afterwards. Now I have a bread machine (a wedding gift from friends); I know it's not the same as baking it from scratch in a real bread oven, but still enjoy experimenting with different types.

While doing a bit of online bread research, I came across this article about bread in Germany. Also, check out this German bread art! And the Germans even have a Museum Of Bread Culture!! I'm starting to save up airfare now...

Poll: What's your favourite bread?

Are you picky about where you buy your bread? Do you ever bake your own bread? If so, can I come over?

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Here's an entertaining animated .gif of Allison at Torcon, courtesy Terence Chua.

Waiting for Isabel, but I suspect the hurricane will just be a lot of rain by the time it hits us. Anyone out there hit harder by Isabel?

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