Tomorrow is #chocolatechipday! Did you know? 

We’re offering a 35% discount on Sally’s Baking Addiction cookbook, so you can pick up this decadent celebration of everything sweet and chocolate and delicious.

Use the code: COOKIE35 

A recipe from Orwashers Artisan Bread.

In 2007, Keith Cohen purchased New York’s Orwasher’s Bakery, listed among the top ten bakeries in America. He launched a new line of Artisan Wine Breads in 2009 under the brand name Oven Artisans. Cohen created his new breads with a wine grape starter in collaboration with Channing Daughters Vineyard in Long Island. The technique used dates all the way back to ancient Egypt, where bakers who were baking bread in the same facility as wine was being fermented discovered that the natural yeast in the air from the fermenting grapes would leaven the bread and give it special flavor. In 2010, Cohen premiered his beer bread—a chewy, dark-hued creation with a nutty, robust flavor that comes from the Otis Stout from Sixpoint Craft Ales that’s mixed into the dough. Orwashers Artisan Bread features the techniques used as well as the recipes for Orwasher’s most famous breads adapted specifically to facilitate home baking.

Bye, bye Ms. American Pie. 

PIE. 

Ms. American Pie author Beth Howard is rocking Phoenix, AZ, and spreading her pie gospel. 

Check her out in the Phoenix Times.

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Orwashers Bread company in New York City, run by Keith Cohen, relies on people rather than machines. Their bakers — passionate craftsmen — follow our slow, proven ritual.  They follow traditional  rules of bread-making — hand shaping, cutting and baking.

“We use our senses constantly. In the bakery, our hands act as our eyes. An ideal dough has the right mix of flour and water. A loaf out of the oven gives just the right amount of resistance when held. It fills the air with a memorable, timeless scent which says fresh baked, right here, right now.”

Keith Cohen’s new book Artisan Bread:  http://bit.ly/1k73bBO

Beth M. Howard knows about pie. She made pies at California’s Malibu Kitchen for celebrities including Barbra Streisand (lemon meringue), Dick Van Dyke (strawberry rhubarb), and Steven Spielberg (coconut cream) before moving back home to rural Iowa. She now lives in the famous American Gothic House (the backdrop for Grant Wood’s famous painting) and runs the hugely popular Pitchfork Pie Stand.

 

With full-color photos throughout, Ms. American Pie features 80 of Beth’s coveted pie recipes and some of her own true tales to accompany them. With chapters like Pies to Heal, Pies to Seduce, and Pies to Win the Iowa State Fair, Beth will divulge her secret for making a killer crust without refrigerating the dough and will show you how to break every rule you’ve ever learned about making delicious, homemade pie. 

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