The photo on the top right is the only pic I had of bread when creating this blog (it's a rye, two sourdough and multigrain I made in one session about a year ago). But it's not meant to be permanent fixture.
If you would like your loaf photos in the guest slot (a bit like the empty plinth in Trafalgar Square) , then email them to bethesda.bakin@gmail.com. If you can resize them, so much the better, but I have the technology (photoshop). And I'll add a name check underneath.
Jack (Sideburns) is added to the Google map, which now has bakers on - pauses to confirm with Google - three continents. Anyone out there baking in South America, Africa or the South Pole?
I've switched the "About this blog" section to the second page with a link. This pushes the posts higher up the page and makes them more visible for a quick glance.
It's a little quiet at the moment, but Mick is due back next week and things should push on at a bit more of a pace.
James
Welcome to Bethesdabakin'
THIS August a gathering of bakers is taking place in the small town of Bethesda in North Wales.
Some are enthusiastic amateurs, others bake for a living. A few are somewhere between. Most have never met each other, but now consider themselves firm friends. All are passionate about baking real bread; the miracle of flour, yeast, salt and water.
All of this is largely due to the efforts of one person. Mick, the baker of Bethesda, who first conceived Bethesdabakin' earlier this year, and whose skills and indefagitable energy are an example to us all.
Mick first proposed this festival of bread on the forum of Dan Lepard's site, one of the great baking resources on the web. You can read his chronicles there, through the link on this page.
At present it looks as though at least two dozen bakers from all over Britain and the rest of the world will be descending on Bethesda for the bank holiday weekend. If you have stumbled on this site by chance, please feel free to join us. Sign up via membership of Dan Lepard's forum, where a charming lady called Teck Poh is taking names.
There is no admission charge, beyond your expenses, but everyone should expect to rise to the occasion, even if it is just to contribute a favourite recipe or help with the washing up.
We look forward to seeing everyone in August. Until then, peace and loaf -or should that be yeast and love - to you all!
April 25, 2007
