European Bread?

Blue Dog is pretty good...

That said, it brings me back to my hitch-hiking days through Europe. My brother and I got a ride from Rotterdam to Hamburg, and the people invited us to stay with them for a few days. OF COURSE, there was an amazing bakery half a block away. Best bread I've ever had. It seems like there is a great bakery every couple blocks! Now we all just shop at the supermarkets, and 99% of people buy mass-produced bread. That is why 99% of the small bakeries are gone. And you go to Kroger, and look at their "homemade" bread, and the ingredient list is thirty items long and you know it isn't right.

Sorry, just reminiscing.

I'm going to Berlin next month to visit my dad (WhoooHoooo.....it'll be a short trip, but any chance to skip country is always awesome in my book). Anybody have any foodie suggestions (vegan)....even just vegetarian??? (we could slip). I was in Berlin a year after the wall came down, and two years after. I hear it has changed a bunch.

Thanks!!

Cheers,

Nimbus

p.s. If anyone is still reading. I really want to start doing my own French Bread, or crusty bread, or something good to go along with our soup at Ray's. I used to bake from the Tassajara Bread book (sp?), but anybody who bakes awesome bread have suggestions for great European-type breads that aren't too hard to make? Thanks...

[Robin Garr]

BRAVO AMY WELL SAID !!!!!! this thread has turned into a vicious attack. we are all adults here, and find this very child like behavior. let it go Heather.

Would anyone object if I "close" this thread or even remove it? I'm afraid it doesn't reflect all that well on any of us, or on the forum.

I won't do this unilaterally or undemocratically, but simply ask: Would anyone object if it all simply went away?

Robin it would probably be better served to remove the off topic responses, the original thread and direct responses are useful.

Please pull it, Robin. While the original question and answer were on track the resulting train wreck does nothing for any of the individuals involved.

I think a couple of otherwise good people (though I don't know them personally) lost their heads. I'd pull it. Nothing sexist about it.