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...

During a trip into San Francisco I made my way over to Tartine Bakery, one of the best local bakeries. Chad Robertson and Elisabeth Prueitt are the co-owners, well known for their baking books “Tartine” and “Tartine Bread.” The bakery doesn’t have a sign out...