February 2012
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January 2012
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WatchPretzel shaping yesterday morning for Niagara Grocery and Fairfield Market.
Good Will
Hello Folks,
Just wanted to put a slightly ambiguous note out there and encourage you to send as much goodwill our way as possible. We may have found a new home for the bakery but there are still many hurdles to go so keep us in you thoughts and I’ll update you all as soon as I know what is happening.
This weekend you will find our bread and pastries at Niagara Grocery and Fairfield Market...
December 2011
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Kneading West
Border Guard: “What’s your destination sir?” Me: “The Kneading Conference” Border Guard: “The what conference?” Me: “The Kneading Conference, I’m a baker.” Border Guard “Sir, please step out of the vehicle.”
After a short rummage through my delivery Vanagon the US Border Patrol was convinced that yes, they really do have...
November 2011
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October 2011
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September 2011
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August 2011
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“A loaf of bread made by a local baker is not only sustenance for the body, it is...”
– Joe Ortiz, The Village Baker
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Oak Bay Night Market- Local Bread+Pastry
Oak Bay Night Market is tomorrow night! Hosted by the Oak Bay BIA and held on Oak Bay Avenue, this market is quickly becoming the best in Victoria. We will be there from 4-8pm with lots of local bread and pastry. But be there early as we sold out in 45 minutes last month.
Above photographs from left to right are CowValley hazelnuts from Wilberry Orchards, Alex Fletcher of Wind Whipped Farm...
July 2011
3 posts
“No booksellers, no books
No books, no learning
No learning, no knowledge
No...”
– The Talmud
June 2011
5 posts
“Bread baking one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some...”
– M.F.K. Fisher The Art of Eating
One Month In.
Having baked (not to mention exploded, burned, crashed, and cursed) my way through the first month of Victoria’s market season, I’m here to report that I’ve had a blast. I want to extend my utmost thanks to anyone and everyone who has braved the interesting weather to find Ottilie and I trying to hold down our rickety market tent at the James Bay and Metchosin Farmer’s...
May 2011
9 posts
Boulanger itinérant/Baker on the Go →
Boulanger itinérant/Baker on the Go is Marc-André Cyr a passionate baker from Quebec who runs a great blog about life as a sous chef and bread baker in Montreal. He’s working on developing a TV show on bread, which I think is a fantastic idea for teaching people what really good bread actually is.
Baker’s of the world unite!
“How can a nation be called great if its bread tastes like kleenex?”
– Julia Child on the American bread of the time.
Come to the James Bay Saturday Market!
We’ll be at the James Bay Saturday Market tomorrow 9am-3pm, selling croissants and whole wheat country loaves made with fresh milled Metchosin-grown wheat, organic wheat and rye flours and Vancouver Island sea salt.
It’s super exciting to be apart of the James Bay Market which has been around for quite awhile (my mom sold wicker furniture there when I was just a little one). These...
Early Morning Baking
anotherwayoftelling:
A few of Byron baking whole wheat loaves in his wood-fired oven for the Metchosin Village market last week!
“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your...”
– –Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
Come to the Metchosin Village Market this Sunday!
This Sunday, May 8th kicks off the first of the Metchosin Village Market in front of the old school building on Happy Valley Road where it meets Metchosin Road. This second market is an off-shoot of the original Metchosin Farmers Market which will also kick off this Sunday behind the firehall. Vendors continue the long tradition of great local food that Metchosin is known for. Come grab...
“In the bad old days of the fourteenth century, when popes ruled from their...”
– From Confessions of a French Baker by Peter Mayle and Gerard Auzet.
April 2011
5 posts
“I have often maintained that the best poet is he who prepares our daily bread:...”
– Pablo Neruda, Nobel Prize Speech, 1971
http://windwhippedfarm.com/ →
The lovely and amazing farmers Alex and Virginie have been working so hard to start a local food box in Metchosin and I’m proud that my bread will be included in it!
February 2011
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January 2011
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WatchI love the smile on the fellows face when he breaks into his loaf. Purely enough reason to be a baker in those few seconds.
December 2010
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November 2010
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