The Traveling Baker
Fry's Red Wheat Bread, a Victoria based, upstart micro-bakery built around a mobile brick oven and the idea of a single baker working to create a community around great bread.
Traveling baker Byron Fry taught himself to bake 3 years ago before apprenticing at the Italian Bakery in Victoria BC. During the summer of 2010 he rode his motorcycle 16 000km around North America, visiting bakeries in Montreal, New York, North Carolina and Portland. In NC he met the baker Richard Miscovich who inspired him to come home to BC, build an oven, and bake bread. The historical name and logo of Fry's Red Wheat Bread was passed down from his great-grandfather whom owned and operated a bakery in Victoria at the turn of the century.
This is his first year farm-based operation in Metchosin. You will find him at the James Bay Community Market Saturdays 9-3 and the Metchosin Farmers Market 11-2 as well as the Oak Bay Night Market, third Wednesday of the month.
Traveling baker Byron Fry taught himself to bake 3 years ago before apprenticing at the Italian Bakery in Victoria BC. During the summer of 2010 he rode his motorcycle 16 000km around North America, visiting bakeries in Montreal, New York, North Carolina and Portland. In NC he met the baker Richard Miscovich who inspired him to come home to BC, build an oven, and bake bread. The historical name and logo of Fry's Red Wheat Bread was passed down from his great-grandfather whom owned and operated a bakery in Victoria at the turn of the century.
This is his first year farm-based operation in Metchosin. You will find him at the James Bay Community Market Saturdays 9-3 and the Metchosin Farmers Market 11-2 as well as the Oak Bay Night Market, third Wednesday of the month.
Ottilie and I drove to Summerland last week to pick up some equipment from this fine gentleman named Hans. He put us up in his house, fed us his own bratwurst for breakfast and sent me home with a dough divider and pumpernickel bread pans. His rye bread which he bakes in a wood-fired oven was nicely flavoured with fennel, anise, and caraway and tasted fantastic! Hans was an oven repair man for a range of Okanagan Bakeriers during the 80s and 90s. In Austria, before he immigrated he was a millwright and knew much about the milling of grains. I can’t wait to go back and visit him, his wife Gretel, and their dog Sparky.
Hansel and Gretel with their dog, Sparky.
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