Baker Without Borders

In addition to this blog, I’ve been writing about my kitchen experiments on my friend’s website, The Knockturnal.  Over the winter, I shared my go-to pizza crust recipe and a simple, no-bake dark chocolate bark recipe. More recently, I chronicled my adventures preparing mosaika tourta, the Greek equivalent of tiramisu, and doce de leite cookies inspired by … Continue reading Perfect Pizza Crust, Doce de Leite Cookies, & Mosaika Tourta

This month, I’m teaching students at the after-school program I work at how to bake breads from around the world. The biggest crowd-pleaser so far has been pretzel rolls, which have an interesting history (they were invented in the Middle Ages by European monks) and an unusual baking process. Before they go in the oven, the … Continue reading Pretzel Rolls & the pH Scale