By: Miko
"It's as if the female crumb has completely reduced the male crust to helpless impotence." I hate when that happens.
View ArticleBy: nicwolff
He missed: the half-size baguettes that Tom Cat Bakery makes are the best ever. But the casatiello - lard bread! with salami in it! - from Caputo's in Brooklyn is the best bread in NYC.
View ArticleBy: breezeway
Conan, tell us what is good in bread! To crush your wheatflour, to see dough driven before you, and to hear the fermentation of their leaven.
View ArticleBy: Smilla's Sense of Snark
Thanks for the extra blog links on the no-knead bread, hindmost. My one try on that so far was a bit disappointing, I'll be poring over those comments to see which substitutions might have affected the...
View ArticleBy: timelord
That was hilarious—almost to the point of ridiculousness and yet I can understand where he's coming from. A truly great baguette is almost impossible to find in the U.S. I don't doubt that there are...
View ArticleBy: hindmost
The no-knead bread is indeed awesome. Here's a nice collection of blogs that have talked about the bread phenomenon as it was taking off and the comments have some suggested modifications. Cheese or...
View ArticleBy: wzcx
thanks twsf, for saving me from looking that up. Or finding the dampened, runny printout of it that's somewhere in my kitchen. (off to start runny bread...)
View ArticleBy: jouke
As one of the germanic people I say that bread should be manly and brown through-and-through and coarse. This mediterranean white bread is bland and effeminate. Or: I don't like baguettes, or turkish...
View ArticleBy: honest knave
It's alarming how this dude hates all but one of his "six favorite NYC baguettes." That's all you find alarming about this guy?
View ArticleBy: Skygazer
As a big fan of Conan, who's gotten tired of his schtick lately. I have to say thanks for this, probably one of the funniest interviews I've seen in a while. Possibly better than some of the legendary...
View ArticleBy: twsf
Even better, try this No-Knead Bread recipe from the NY Times a few months ago that has literally swept the nation. Ridiculously easy, and it makes commercial quality bread in nothing more than a basic...
View ArticleBy: bread-eater
Fantastic. Thanks jtajta. I would have missed this otherwise. Glad to find out about such an interesting guy here at Cornell. And well, my name indicates my feelings for bread. Moreover, I used to...
View ArticleBy: Kattullus
Oh my... that was hilarious. Here's the full interview on youtube. Also, off topic, but the ad on the NBC site got me all excited, Andy Richter has a new show! I can only hope it's half as good as the...
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