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Expert bread baker Charlie van Over wondered why a folding bread knife could not be produced and took his idea for a pocket bread knife to Lamson & Goodnow, American manufacturers of the LamsonSharp range. The Bâtard Folding Picnic knife is the result of this collaboration, possibly be the best picnic knife ever made!
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I’m testing new recipes for the revised Best Bread Ever. This is my second test making the baguettes at home in my Viking oven. The baking stone I am currently using was given to me by the oven manufacturer Woodstone a few years ago to test. I am very pleased with the results. No photo of the […]
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I am working on an article about using what I call a Mother Fire when cooking over wood using a Tuscan grill in a fireplace. Here is the fire ablaze. The idea is that when the embers die down under the grill, you take fresh coals from the timbers burning in the left side of […]
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In the dead of winter under an avalanche of snow, this reminds me of the good meals to come. We like to roast lobsters on a rack inside our wood oven. (Priscilla took this photo in September.) First I preheat the grill. Then I place the lobsters, cut side down, on the rack. This seems […]
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Making pizza at home has been a passion for years. (In fact, many of my first clients were in the pizza business. ) We have great luck baking in our home oven outfitted with a baking stone. But recently we built this oven in our yard.
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We cook and supplement the heat in our home using wood. Here are some links and information about building a cooking and heating fire.
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