In 1990, I left my desk job to become a bread baker. Not that I was an expert, although I’d spent plenty of time in restaurant kitchens and traveled in Europe and San Francisco enough to know what I ...

Sam Coates-Finke wore a baseball hat, a white apron and scuffed work-boots. With black-rimmed glasses he looked into a pot of boiling oil, waiting. "Is it ready?" a child asked. Along with a couple of ...

Many people took up bread baking during the pandemic, leading some to rely on Dutch ovens or bread machines to make loaves. And Le Creuset recently released a new piece of cookware designed to help ...