Samuel Fromartz, the author/journalist who shocked a small conference room of bakers and cooks by winning the City Paper's debut baguette contest, recounts his formative experiences at a Parisian boulangerie in the premiere issue of Afar magazine. Don't expect any tales of abuse at the hands of an angry French baker. Instead, Fromartz balances his [...]
Y&H should have posted this earlier, but Samuel Fromartz, the amateur baker who stole the show at our debut baguette competition, wrote a nice rumination the other day about his victory. How good was the essay? The New York Times' Mark Bittman blogged it, without providing a bit of context. By which I mean, he [...]
Silent Treatment: Loic Feillet knows how to take criticism Loic Feillet is, without question, one of the area's most skilled bakers. The owner of Panorama Baking Co. in Alexandria has, over the years, sold bread to some of the finest restaurants in the District, including both CityZen and Citronelle. But when Feillet took part in [...]
A number of experts spent part of the day at the City Paper offices this afternoon to figure that out. Y&H invited two of the heaviest hitters in the local bread-making business to turn a critical eye — and palate — on our area's baguettes: Mark Furstenberg, the founder of both Marvelous Market and Breadline, [...]
As if the Huffington Post hasn't already proved it, the evidence is clear on Y&H: Linking to other people's blogs serves my own insatiable need for adoring readers, or readers of any kind really. I don't know what my journalism profs would say about all this, but two out of the five top posts this [...]
My bud Sam Fromartz recently got back from Paris where he spent a week in a boulangerie, learning to make bread the classic French way. He'll be writing about his experiences for the forthcoming Afar, an experiential travel magazine that launches this fall, so he couldn't say much on the record. But he did something [...]
