I started making bread with both beer yeast and my own starter, with some seriousness, about ten years ago. Then, Youtube and the internet, including a very interesting specialized bread making forum called The Fresh Loaf  sent me on my way to making some pretty good bread. My attraction to…

My wife Anna has a has a postcard mailed to Bulgaria from Detroit, Michigan in 1919. On the postcard George Daskalov, her great great uncle, writes to his mom, among other things: “Please start the sauerkraut and find for me a good wife.” His mother found for him a wife,…