On today's episode of Cooking Issues, we remember Dave's editor extraordinaire, Maria Guarnaschelli, whom we lost this weekend. We are honored to be joined by her daughter, Alex Guarnaschelli, as well as a variety of authors who worked with Maria; Rick Bayless, Kenji López-Alt, Jim Lahey, and Harold McGee. Together...

by Jordan Werner Barry The Modernist BreadCrumbs team spends a lot of time asking bakers, "Is bread baking an art or a science?" When it comes to Jim Lahey's classic No-Knead Bread, I think it's actually magic. There's no sourdough starter to tend, no kneading to tire your arms; just...

This week, Dave and Nastassia are joined by habitual line stepper Peter Kim. Tune in to hear about Nastassia’s distaste for social interactions, the MOFAD annual gala, carbonating cocktails inside a bottle, Jim Lahey’s bizarre method of scrambling eggs, the proper kind of turkey for club sandwiches, and more! Plus...

Nastassia is absent this week, but we're joined by masterbaker Jim Lahey of Sullivan Street Bakery, and first-time father Peter Kim! We're talking bread, bicycles, jerk chicken, being called a jerk by your kids, and more! Cooking Issues is powered by Simplecast

On today's episode of All in the Industry, host Shari Bayer is joined by Jim Lahey, James Beard award-winning baker and owner of Sullivan Street Bakery in NYC and Miami, and Co. Restaurant in NYC. Jim studied sculpture before Jim’s first cookbook, My Bread: The Revolutionary No-Work, No-Knead Method. He’s...

This is Episode Eight of Modernist BreadCrumbs: “Breadbox.” Bread is immeasurable, no longer bound by precepts. The new dictum of baking bread is built on shapes and sizes we haven’t even dreamt of. This episode, the proverbial breadbox of the series, will hold all the bits of bread we haven’t...

This is Episode Seven of Modernist BreadCrumbs: "Thermal Mass," on baking and ovens. We’ll discuss “thermal mass," or the ability to absorb and hold heat, in two-parts: within bread itself, and the ovens it's baked in. It’s a complex physicochemical process… that’s more than just hot air. Modernist BreadCrumbs is...

This is Episode Six of Modernist BreadCrumbs: “Balls & Sticks,” on shapes, scoring, and semiotics. Balls & sticks. You’ll hear this idiom over and over in this episode, as if we’re talking in circles. The two shapes' repetitive figures have been a constant in bread’s identity over time, but why...

This is Episode Five of Modernist BreadCrumbs: “Against the Grain,” on politics. How does bread play a part in politics you ask? Withholding grain has been part of party lines as well as a catalyst of war. Though the fight still continues to bring bread to those impoverished and underfed...

This is Episode Four of Modernist BreadCrumbs: “Milling About,” History Part II, Pre-Industrialization. When we look back on how modern baking came to be, it’s the same old story of craft informing art, and how the artisanal approach was replicated through the aid of mechanization. This episode picks up where...