I’ve been collecting pizza stones in order to recommend the best ones to you and because I have never met a piece of kitchen equipment I could resist. I have been surprised by some and disappointed by others. Here is my review…the stones are in random order.

First off, sorry for the loud cricket sounds– couldn’t do anything about that, because…
It’s still summer, and I’m still grilling bread, but I wanted to show how to roll dough exceptionally thin for crackers use the outdoor grill as an oven.  The key with crackers is to prevent them from getting scorched.  In Artisan Bread [...]

The heat wave isn’t nearly as bad in Minnesota as it is in on the East coast, but I can’t say that I’m itching to fire up the oven and bake fresh buns for hot dogs or bratwurst.  It’s a cinch to do it on the same grill that you use for your hot dogs [...]

As a doctor, I’m constantly being asked whether you can eat bread without gaining weight.  The evidence suggests that you can maintain a healthy weight by limiting your energy intake, whether your diet’s low-carb, low-fat, or has a balanced limitation of calories.  There’s no evidence that limiting calories from carbohydrates (like bread) is better than [...]

… it all started with a question for Lynne Rossetto Kasper on The Splendid Table NPR radio show, on April 4, 2000 (see video below).
But first a bit of news that’s more important than how we started writing books (a publisher heard this call-in interview and made a book offer):  Zoe and I are [...]

The flour company I know and trust the most has come out with a gluten-free line of products.  King Arthur Flour now has mixes for brownies (which my family love), cakes, muffins and other quick and tasty treats. They also have many of the ingredients to make the breads from our gluten-free chapter in HBin5. [...]

It’s basically summer, even here in Minnesota, and I’m baking loaves outside on the grill already.  Last summer, we did a lot of grilled flatbreads (and there’ll be more to come), but a few days ago I baked a peasant loaf in a closed cast iron pot, right on the gas grill.  We’ve had lots [...]

Jeff and I are just back from doing a presentation at the Tucson Festival of Books. Nothing like baking bread outside and under a perfectly blue sky to get me in the mood for summer. When we returned to MN the snow was all melted and my grill had reemerged ready for use. Burger time. [...]

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(… and a recipe for pitas from so-called “Cornell” dough).  Don’t quote me on the title, because that will probably change five times before our third book is released in late 2011. But we know for sure that it will have pizza and flatbreads from all over the world—plus, the recipes will [...]

This year my family finally signed up for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) share.  Along with neighbors, we’re supporting a local farmer, Mike Jacobs of Easy Bean Farm in Milan, MN.  Every Friday, Mike wakes before dawn and drives to the Twin Cities and other communities to deliver the week’s bounty of organic produce.  We pick up [...]