When Life Isn't Easy As Pie

Or why I wish we could live on the path of yeast resistance

There is, whether we are aware of it or not, something fundamentally different between baking and cooking.

Cooking requires artistry. It’s subtlety mixed with knowledge multiplied by butter. I can follow a recipe and make something more than edible but less than magnificent. Real cooking is a dance between hands and ingredients that I will never underst…