The Traveling Baker
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.
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 holding a massive tomato for tomorrows foccacia, and a block of butter for the epic amount of croissants I’m hand-rolling for the market.
I’m going to be attempting to live-blog the baking tomorrow, photographing breads as they come out of the oven so check back in tomorrow.
Breads tomorrows are as follows:
Wind Whipped Farm Apple Hazelnut Rye
Walnut Red Wheat Bread
Red Wheat Country Bread
Caraway Rye Country Bread
Wind Whipped Tomato Foccaccia
Happy Valley Rosemary Foccaccia
Classic Baguettes
Pastries are as follows:
Wilberry Hazelnut Croissants
Butter Croissants
Pain au chocolat
Wind Whipped Red Currant Scones
Cherry Chocolate Scones
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