I'll be honest: I haven't always been good at making bread. Mixing flour and water is fine, and I think kneading by hand is fun. It's the yeast that causes trouble. Yeast is essential to good bread, ...

With more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of people are making friends with yeast for the first time. I am a professor of hospitality management and a former chef, ...

Use the "Hasselback" method to make an entire loaf of garlic bread at once. Slice most of the way through the bread, then ...

There are loads of simple white bread recipes out there, many of which yield multiple loaves worth of dough. Whether you’re a seasoned bread baker, or trying your hand at yeast breads for the first ...

Raisin “tea” doesn’t exactly look appetizing — waterlogged blobs bobbing in water. But bread leavened with the wild yeast that collects on the raisin skins and is extracted into the liquid is ...

My bread experiments lately are noticeably leaning toward the cozy variety. I shall call them comfort breads. Gooey cinnamon buns and soft dinner rolls have more allure as the days cool down; the ...

I stumbled on Ken Forkish’s Evolutions in Bread just as I was giving up on baking sourdough bread. Giving up was, perhaps, too strong a term. More accurate: letting my starter languish in the back of ...