Episode 70: Thanksgiving & Baking

Monica and Louisa talk Thanksgiving sides. Monica interviews artisan baker and cookbook author Daniel Leader about German rye bread, why people can eat artisan bread without feeling sick and Jedi bakers. Louisa interviews Michelin-starred pastry chef Aya Fukai. And then she dares Monica to eat Turducken Pringles. But will she eat it?

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BAKER, AUTHOR, PIONEER: Daniel Leader of Bread Alone Bakery

On this episode, baker and award winning author, Daniel Leader joins me to talk about his new book LIVING BREAD: Tradition and Innovation in Artisan Bread Baking. We discuss his early bread education through the “backdoor school of baking” and the founding of his bakery, Bread Alone, in 1983 in Boiceville, New York…

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Daniel Leader // Living Bread

Daniel Leader is the author of Living Bread: Tradition and Innovation in Artisan Bread Making. In the 1980s, he left Manhattan to open his bakery, Bread Alone, in Hudson Valley and his first book, Bread Alone, won the IACP award for best baking book in 1994.

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Artisan Baker Dan Leader, Bread Alone

After apprenticing with artisan bakers throughout Europe, Daniel Leader founded Bread Alone bakery in New York's Hudson Valley in 1983. Today he is considered one of the nation's leading masters on making artisan bread and a scholar on the art and science of baking. Bread Alone's wholesale/retail distribution now stretches from New York to Boston…

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Rise Up! #78 - Daniel Leader

Daniel Leader is founder of Bread Alone Bakery and author of three outstanding books on bread and bakeries (in addition to being one of Mark's baking heroes!) His latest book, Living Bread, continues to inform local bakers via innovations in European baking and milling. In this episode, Mark and Daniel talk about the struggles the current micro-bakers face as they build businesses for the long term, in the context of the innovation he's seen in Europe. It's a challenging and compelling talk.

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Chef Daniel Leader, Master Bread Maker Joins In to Discuss "Living Bread"

NWP welcomes Daniel Leader, Master Bread Maker! Living Bread is the major new cookbook by the pioneer from Bread Alone, Chef Daniel Leader.  This new book will revolutionized American artisan bread baking, with 60 recipes inspired by bakers around the world.

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Daniel Leader On How 'Living Bread' Is More Than Just A Cook Book

At 22, Daniel Leader stopped in his tracks at the smell coming from bread baking in the back room of a Parisian boulangerie, and he has loved and devoted himself to making quality bread ever since. The creator of Bread Alone bakery, he has pushed for a return to artisan bread made by hand, away from the commercial breads that dominate supermarkets today.

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Artisan Baker Dan Leader, Bread Alone

After apprenticing with artisan bakers throughout Europe, Daniel Leader founded Bread Alone bakery in New York's Hudson Valley in 1983. Today he is considered one of the nation's leading masters on making artisan bread and a scholar on the art and science of baking…

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CHERYL TALKS ARTISANAL BREAD WITH MASTER BAKER DANIEL LEADER ABOUT HIS NEW BOOK, LIVING BREAD. 

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