Breads and Things

So the idea behind this blog is pretty simple: bread plus goal meets indeterminate ending. The goal is to learn about breads and things, or at least that was the goal to begin with. I'm a recent graduate in a pretty bad job market, so needless to say I've had some trouble finding a job. Which has left me with a lot of time to do the things I have been putting off while I was in school. Things like, getting sick, having my wisdom teeth removed, and sustaining silly accidental injuries just to make use of my health insurance before it expires. This process of discovery, shall we call it, has first off given me a lot of "alone time" in my very small apartment and secondly resulted in a very strong desire for baked goods. Deciding perhaps, that my obsession and hobby could potentially become a career, I started volunteering at a local bakery (getting up at 3am really isn't as bad as it sounds). The Bakery I now work at one day a week specializes in organic, home-made, "Californian" sandwich bread...which is great for me in terms of learning how to mass produce bread in a commercial kitchen but isn't really teaching me how to make artisan bread or pastries. So in favor of a well-rounded education, I have decided to teach myself! So, the goal with the indeterminate ending is as such: I will make one new type of bread or thing a week, every week until I know absolutely everything.