Friday Bread Basket 9/20/24
Printed matters
Hello from the Wordloaf Friday Bread Basket, a weekly roundup of links and items relating to bread, baking, and grain. This one includes a couple of recommendations for soon-to-be released printed matter I think you are going to want.
Super pizza world news
Pizza-heads: My friend John Carruthers is about to ship a sequel to his amazing pizza-zine/book, Pizza for Everyone, and you are definitely going to want to get a copy by contributing to his crowdfunding drive:
The short version: Super Pizza World is a sequel to 2021's Pizza for Everyone by the team of John Carruthers and Zach Sherwood. It's like 50% bigger than the first book, and draws from an international bench of writers, cooks, and artists to preach the gospel of great pizza for all. You will learn how to make so many different kinds of pizza and pizza-related foods. You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll spill sauce on yourself.
Contributors to Super Pizza World include:
Sothie Keo, who spends his days helping to run the government of the beautiful country of Cambodia. Here he's translating a chili crisp recipe from my friend's mother in law. He's ... overqualified.
Robin LeBlanc, arguably the best drinks writer in Canada, was asked to join the party and was too Canadian to refuse.
Dennis Lee, the internet's only food writer ever.
Chicago pizza expat Dave Lichterman from Windy City Pie in Seattle.
Derrick Tung of the Paulie Gee's Pizza empire (it's a benevolent empire, like the Culture).
Claudia Sandoval, a literal MasterChef and delightful food show host.
Ramen Lord (it's his username, I'm not puffing him up) Mike Satinover of Akahoshi Ramen.
Janice Scurio, reliably one of the most entertaining and interesting White Sox writers walking the beat. (Obviously used to poorly-run operations and thus the perfect fit to join the Crust Fund team).
Memoirist, viral humor writer, and gel pen aficionado Lillian Stoneruns the advertising department this time around alongside Sam Carruthers.
Modernist Pizza Podcast host, author, and award-winning food photographer Michael Harlan Turkell.
Jesse Valenciana of The Secret Bodega in Nashville.
Dessert dynamo Cam Waron, who once took a run at Bobby Flay (on a tv show, not in an alarming way).
Adam Witt, who makes incredible cooking content on social media platforms I'm too ancient to fully understand.
And, of course, Crust Fund Pizza. We will quite literally let you skip the FOMO with our exact recipe, precisely forged over years of dedicated alley service.
And this guy, who shared a stupid recipe for “French bread pizza” where you actually make the French bread from scratch (and where it is round, so you can slice it like every other pizza):
Andrew Janjigian, renowned baker and America's Test Kitchen alum, who we can only assume got lost on the way to some other cookbook.
Only 12 days left to get in on it!
Pin-up art
My friend Molly Reeder is offering another of her illustrated wall calendars this year, and this one is as beautiful as ever. Hers is more expensive than your average calendar, but each month is re-purposable as an original artwork, and some of the price goes to a good cause:
My calendar contains 13 original illustrations that can be turned into 6x8” prints after you are done using the calendar portion. There are several new pieces in there that haven’t even been shared with the public yet! I am so excited for you all to have these.
Also, 10% of profits from my calendar sales will go to support Richmond Community Fridges—a wonderful local mutual aid group that has public fridges set up all over the city where people can donate food, and anyone can take from for free.
Though there’s no sneak preview of either of them on Molly’s website, there are two breads among the thirteen illustrations.
Bread & cake
I am a sucker for vintage package design, which is one reason I follow the blog Present & Correct. Recently they shared an incredible collection of Japanese sliced-bread bags. (While you are there, be sure to check out this post on old double-edged razor packaging from Europe, also relevant to our interests.)
That’s it for this week’s bread basket. Have a peaceful weekend everyone, see you all next week.
—Andrew
What a great bunch of stuff!
Thanks Andrew