In Sunday’s San Francisco Baking Institute class we made olive sourdough, rye and semolina loaves. Like Saturday, I made fifteen loaves of bread but am only counting it as three. We had measured all our dry ingredients out on Saturday afternoon, so we were able to jump right into...

San Francisco Baking Institute – Day 1 The San Francisco Baking Institute (www.sfbi.com) is a professional baking school. In addition to their full our professional courses, they offer week long and weekend long classes for those of us not quite ready to get a degree in baking. I signed up...

I just signed up for a two day class on sourdough breads at the San Francisco Baking Institute at the end of February. SFBI Weekend Workshops I’ll be ready to learn because I’m planning to do quite a few sourdough loaves before then – I should have plenty of questions. To...

One of the reasons I decided to do this project is that Sarah gave me bread classes for Christmas. I attended the “2-Day Artisan Bread Workshop” with Chef Deanna Gin last weekend at Sur La Table in Palo Alto. The class was three hours each day. The first day we made English...