Making bread at home intimidates many home bakers who don’t have tons of experience making yeast bread. Several steps are involved, and there’s no guarantee of an edible end result. Plus, making bread ...

Award-winning baker Philip Martin shares his top tips and recipes. After a year into the pandemic, the rise of baking bread has been one trend that has endured among home cooks. Building confidence in ...

For most of my life, I assumed that baking bread was exclusively for professionals—or at least, home cooks with exceptional talent. From what I knew, the process was long and complicated and easy to ...

I was in New York last month, walking in a Brooklyn neighborhood, when I smelled it. Yeast. Flour. Bread. The air was thick with it. The bakery was on a corner, across the street from my intended ...

The thing about bread baking is that it teaches one humility before all else. I owned my own café, baked professionally, and spent years turning out cakes, cookies, and desserts with confidence, but ...

It's no secret that cooking lends itself to experimentation. Recipes are more like guidelines, and tweaking them can lead to a new family favorite. Baking, on the other hand, is a science, and that ...

In my kitchen, you’ll seldom find me happier than when I am baking bread. Yeast breads are my go-to comfort food and something I truly enjoy baking. There’s something about the aroma of freshly baked ...