It is Sunday morning, and that means one thing: the smell of baking bread. It’s just my husband and I in the house, so we only get through one loaf of bread a week if we’re lucky. It has become tradition to eat a few hot buttered slices for Sunday lunch, leaving the rest of […]

The mere notion of baking bread leaves some of us quaking in our boots, but it doesn’t have to be complex or fiddly. I have practiced and practiced baking this bread – it is easy and foolproof. I find eating freshly baked multigrain bread (virtuous) smothered in butter (debauched) to be  a leading cause of […]

Apparently man cannot live on bread alone. I haven’t personally tested the truth of this anecdote but if foccacia was the only food left on earth I wouldn’t be sad. The smell of baking bread is a universal and primal love, and the addition of kalamata olives and sundried tomatoes transports these blissful aromas to […]