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Friday Bread Basket 5/20/22

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Friday Bread Basket 5/20/22

Lighting Round Edition

Andrew Janjigian
May 20, 2022
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Friday Bread Basket 5/20/22

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Lance St. Laurent @LanceStLaurent
Orson was a big boy who demanded a big boy’s breakfast
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2:48 AM ∙ May 16, 2022
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Welcome to the Wordloaf Friday Bread Basket, a weekly roundup of links and items relating to bread, baking, and grain. When I first began doing the Friday Bread Basket, I worried that there would be weeks for which I wouldn’t have enough items to share. As it turns out, the opposite is true—I regularly have way more items than I can get to, especially when I want to give each of them proper context. So I usually just pick the top two or three items I want you to see, even if other ones are interesting too.

This week, in order to catch up with the backlog a bit, I’m going to do a ‘lightning round’, where I share more things, but with zero context other than a headline.


Gwendolyn Brooks on ‘the breadier love’

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Helen Charman @helen_charman
from Maud Martha, Gwendolyn Brooks’ newly-reissued 1953 novel— ‘the breadier love’, the work of leaning upon
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8:09 AM ∙ May 13, 2022
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Roxane Gay visits Poilâne Bakery

The Audacity.
Flour. Water. Salt. Yeast.
While I was in Paris for my youngest brother’s wedding, Sudeep Rangi and Appollonia Poilâne reached out and invited me to the bakery Poilâne. I love baking so I did not hesitate. I took my ten-year-old niece Parker, and off we went to a beautiful little bakery on a narrow Parisian street full of chic shops. At the storefront, customers queue halfway up …
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a year ago · 114 likes · 33 comments · Roxane Gay

Nigella Lawson (👋) and others on the crisp (potato chip) sandwich

(Extra context: I’ve been eating potato chip and mustard sandwiches since childhood.)


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COSAS DE NORTEÑOS @CosasDeNortenos
LE TOMÉ UNA FOTO AL ECLIPSE LUNAR ANOCHE
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3:30 PM ∙ May 16, 2022
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(Translation: “I TOOK A PHOTO OF THE LUNAR ECLIPSE LAST NIGHT”)


John Carruthers on homemade pizza


Chaat in the Bay Area (& eye candy for everyone)


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Nate Wolff @ProffWolff
Everything everywhere all at once
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11:59 AM ∙ May 17, 2022
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That’s it for this week’s bread basket. I’ll see you all next week, have a peaceful weekend.

—Andrew

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Rhianna Morris
May 20, 2022Liked by Andrew Janjigian

I just watched Everything Everywhere, and bagels have a whole new relevance to me now!

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Marcia
May 20, 2022

Hello Wordloaf friends. Listened to this podcast yesterday, and thought you all might like it: https://www.southernfoodways.org/gravy/geneology-of-a-bakery/

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