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By Anthony Carnovale There’s an art to making a good pizza. And I think it’s safe to say, that you won’t see it at any of the popular pizza places that are currently shucking pies in Orangeville. In North America, like Orangeville, most pizzas are sold like fast-food items- something that is cheap, quick, and convenient. Growing up, my mother made English muffin pizzas; my grandmother made half-sheet pizzas with hot dogs (because hots dogs were cheaper than pepperoni). In elementary school, my friends and I would venture over to Pizza Pizza, where for two bucks, we smashed a pepperoni s...

Print The books that America cooked from during 2020 will stand as cultural artifacts of the year when a virus forced an entire nation into the kitchen. The pandemic has been good to cookbooks. Overall sales jumped 17% from 2019, according to figures from NPD BookScan, which tracks about 85% of U.S. book sales. Some of the smash hits were predictable. The world domination of Joanna Gaines, the queen of shiplap, continued. The second volume of her hugely popular “Magnolia Table” cookbook franchise sailed to the top of the New York Times list of the bestselling cookbooks in 2020. Ina Gar...

I think he explains in one of his videos:  #11 in the playlist. if you weigh the levain in a dry container, it could stick and you wouldn't get it all out. Personally, I usually weigh it in a dry bowl or cup and just go 2 grams over to allow for loss. If you weigh it into the main mixing bowl, and need to remove a bit after adding too much, you might pull out other ingredients. But as they say, there is more than one way to skin a cat.   mariana He shows it here And this method works when you weigh your levain separately, without placing the container with the autolysed portion onto the s...

March 13, 2021 - 11:03pm Brandontf8o8 Straight white and some focaccia After a few bad batches, decided to go back to basics.  Decided to go with a simple straight white bread and make some focaccia with the left over dough. I am currently going through Ken Forkish's Flour, Water, Salt, Yeast and am about to start getting into making a starter.  When I first sat down to read the section on getting it going I was taken aback by how wasteful his method seems and took to the forums to find that I'm not the only one. With that being said, were I to follow his method, is it possible to utilize t...

By Evan Kleiman Listen 9 min MORE According to Bookscan, 200,000 more bread cookbooks sold in the U.S. in 2020 than in 2019. Image by Rudy and Peter Skitterians from Pixabay We’ve been basically close to home for almost a year. When we first went into lockdown, the shock of needing to feed ourselves at home by ourselves took awhile to understand. Some of us bought enough beans for the next millennium. Others went to Costco and bought suitcase-size boxes of cereal. In the end we retreated to our kitchens and d...