When people talk about Les Misérables, it’s rare that they’re talking about Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel. Embarrassingly enough, until I was fifteen, I didn’t know that it was a book at all. I did, ...

We all became obsessed with sourdough bread last spring, and it’s no wonder. What better way to channel anxiety than by pummeling bread dough and then slathering the delicious, fresh-baked results ...

The recipe for this delectable Icelandic staple comes to us in a timely manner: the seventh annual Taste of Iceland Festival returns to Seattle this Thursday, October 9 through Sunday, October 12. If ...

This is the first of two bread recipes for winter baking. Neither are kneaded, but rather made with a stretch-and-fold motion right in the bowl. The second recipe, for focaccia, will run in this space ...

Think about rye and the things that probably come to mind are dense loaves of Old World bread, dark as earth and shot with caraway, maybe a nursery rhyme (blackbirds, pie) or more likely a tumbler of ...