Showing posts with label breadheads. Show all posts
Showing posts with label breadheads. Show all posts

Monday, May 12, 2008

Break the Block and Get a Bread Book

Paula Whyman, aka "curious writer," who recently guest-blogged here and was featured in a very cool Washington Post article on bread, is running a "creative jump-start" contest on her brand new blog: check it out and enter to win a beginner's guide to bread baking. Here's my entry in the contest:

Wash something--- yourself, the dishes, the dog--- anything. The act of washing calms the mind so that creative ideas, no longer repelled by turbulence, float in... to glide.... swanlike... One then proceeds to the desk....

Wednesday, April 30, 2008

Breadhead Alert!

Paula Whyman, aka "curious writer," who guest-blogged here on Madam Mayo about baking for writers, is featured in David Hagedorn's "Chef on Call" column in the Washington Post:
Bethesda resident Paula Whyman calls herself a breadhead, meaning she takes, and bakes, the stuff seriously. The sight of artisanal bread packaged in plastic bags disturbs her. The 43-year-old writer owns a baking stone, a peel, a special tool for slashing dough, a gas range and an electric... READ MORE