By Emily Esterson Shonah Tovah! I’ve been making bagels for a long time, first with commercial yeast, and often now with sourdough. Over many years, I’ve gotten a good feel of how they progress along the timeline of production. There’s something comforting about a tried and true recipe, one you know is filled with the… Read More Breader Burque Ch. XXI: The Baking Jew in Me
Yesterday, I was riding the wrong way uphill on the shoulder of Dennis Chaves Blvd. (NM-500), trying to stay with the orange barrels, seen above, between me and the many drivers zooming downhill. A cyclist, one of those racer/lycra types who often use Dennis Chavez for hill training and downhill thrills, cycle-zoomed past me, but… Read More The Pandemic Ate My Homework: The “Stupid” Project
It’s been a while since I’ve posted on breadder burque. It’s not because I haven’t been baking—I have, every week, sometimes twice a week. I have had some noteworthy success and a few noteworthy failures. Topics have popped into my head as potential blog posts, yet I have not put my fingers on the keyboard.… Read More Breadder Burque Ch. XX: Bread + Creative Spark = Productivity
If you have lived in Albuquerque for quite some time, you may have had the experience, pre-pandemic, of attending a musical event at Tingley Coliseum. And you may have thought about that experience in ways unmistakably stolen from David Byrne and the Talking Heads: And you may find yourself Attending an Iron Maiden concert And… Read More ABQ’s Dearth of Suitable Music Venues: Isaac Stern Performs at the Gym
by Emily Esterson In the case of my most recent brioche disaster (I’m going to keep baking that damn thing until it I get it right or I weigh 300 lbs), I simply forgot to turn the page. I am not kidding. I didn’t turn the page of the book I was using. What the… Read More Breadder Burque Ch. XIX: Stairway to Baking Heaven
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