Dearly beloved readers,
Greetings! I wish you and yours a very bright new year. Here are a few notes for you as we reopen today, Wednesday, Jan. 22—back from our long winter recess.
Bad news first: I’m scrapping the toasters. When they come out right they’re fantastic and I love them, but they don’t fit our production rhythms very well and they have been frustratingly inconsistent over the past year we’ve been making them: sometimes too small, sometimes too dark, sometimes overproofing out of the tins, sometimes too light. Seems like it should have been an easy fix but somehow we just couldn’t consistently nail them. Depending on general demand and our capacity, I may bring back a similar loaf that would fit our production better and would therefore wind up a lot more consistent. Until then…
Good news: if you like bread in tins, the seeded red is now going to be baked in them. I think the seeded looks a little nicer baked in a tin, it distinguishes it further from the red and blonde, and it makes for a really nice toasting loaf.
More good news: no raising prices or anything like that.
The Pillar of the Bakery. The bread schedule remains pretty much the same except that Thursday we’ll have a cranberry walnut instead of the cherry hazelnut, and Friday we’ll have the roast potato rosemary instead of the apricot thyme. Wednesday still harbors the olive loaf, and Saturday remains a surprise Baker’s Choice. I’ll update the menu on our website in the next day or two to reflect those minor changes.
Just in case one of my last cryptic emails misled you, I did not in fact go on a Disney cruise in the Caribbean during one of our breaks, though I did somewhat contemplate the mystery of time, the seeming infinitude of cosmic beauty, and the strange existence of consciousness at all, as I gazed at various images from the James Webb telescope. I feel I needed to clear that up.
The Pillars of Creation. My old friend Joel is still popping up with his pizzas at our shop as he looks toward getting his own place. He’s changed the open days though: now it’s Saturday and Sunday, rather than Sunday and Monday. More details on his website.
I guess that’s all for the moment. Thanks for your loyal patronage, and I hope you haven’t all started some fashionable anti-bread diet while we were gone.
yours truly,
david the baker