Virtuous Bread: Recent Episodes
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You’ve got a great business idea and you’re ready to take the plunge into entrepreneurship. Congratulations! Before you get started, it’s important to take some strategic steps to ensure your business is set up for success. From choosing the right legal structure to creating a solid marketing plan, these key elements will help you hit … Starting a business? Take these strategic steps to succeed Read More »
This is not a video about how to make the actual saurkraut, but about how to eat it, once you have made it (or bought it). If you think you hate it, don’t eat it raw. I know of what I speak! COOK THE KRAUT. Here’s how!
For years, Virtuous Bread and the Bread Angels have been working with prisoners at The Clink restaurant in Highdown prison. It is some of the most fun work that we do: always a challenge, always having to roll with whatever the schedule is that day and how it changes during the day, always putting dough … Baking in prison Read More »
Recently I have been reading a sobering book by Joanna Blythman called Swallow This. In it, she writes about how food is processed, and it makes for sobering reading. I set up Virtuous Bread to change the world by helping people make, buy, and learn about good bread and, over the past six years, I … How to avoid chemical additives when baking from scratch Read More »
Surprise! This is actually a post about corporate generosity which is not a simple topic. The existential question is whether you can be generous to everyone: suppliers, customers, staff, senior leadership, owners, the planet…the list is a long one and I think it’s impossible to be generous to all of those groups. The tradeoffs are … Generous coffee from the Monmouth Coffee Company Read More »
I wrote and delivered this speech to the students of my critical reasoning class at the Tec de Monterrey in December 2021. “Having lived a decade in Mexico, I have seen many changes. In my experience, when it comes to big, global trends, Mexico lags the rest of North America and Europe by a few … Down the rabbit hole of the digital native. Read More »
Crumpets and tea are things of beauty, especially in the winter when warm, buttery, toasted things are welcome by tea time just as the long, dark night begin to close in.
Bath buns are a total and complete delight. You will LOVE how easy they are to bake and how utterly yummy they are.
We need excitement and beauty. During COVID, we fried doughnuts, ate pancakes, gobbled all the chocolate in the house and we learned that life is too short for giving up goodies. My thought? Take up walking 10,000 steps per day instead.
Unlike Swedish Cracker bread, Swedish Tunnbrod is soft and squashy – perfect for a picnic, quick lunch or breakfast.
Lussebullar are a Scandinavian bun prepared and eaten specifically to celebrate St Lucia’s day on the 13 December. They are super fun to make and very very yummy.
This recipe first appeared in All You Knead is Bread, now republished as Making Bread At Home. Covid got you down? Why not continue to bake your way around Italy, learning virtually on our ciabatta and the focaccia e courses!
If you enjoy baking buns, why not buy The Book of Buns and enjoy some bun challenges every few weeks. To learn more about bread, click here to take a face to face or Zoom baking class or click here to take one of our e-learning classes. You will enjoy really fun, informative sessions. We … Delicious and beautiful twisted, chocolate buns Read More »
It may be time for a SUPER SIMPLE recipe for rye bread. No sourdough, no wheat flour. Just rye. Any rye will do.