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Movie: Adam

Moroccan filmmaker Maryam Touzani's 2019 debut is a quiet, understated exploration of the evolving relationship between 2 women in a poor neighborhood in Casablanca: the unwed, pregnant Samia, who's looking for work and a place to stay, and Abla, a widowed baker with a young daughter. Beautifully and sensually filmed, with excellent performances, a sharp sense of place and a neat thread about baking running through. Trailer. 87% at Rotten Tomatoes. [more inside]
posted by mediareport on Aug 3, 2023 - 2 comments

Book: The Golem and the Jinni

Helene Wecker's dazzling debut novel tells the story of two supernatural creatures who appear mysteriously in 1899 New York. Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange old man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert. Struggling to make their way in this strange new place, the Golem and the Jinni try to fit in with their Jewish and Syrian neighbors while masking their true natures. [more inside]
posted by fifteen schnitzengruben is my limit on Jun 27, 2021 - 6 comments

Book: A Wizard's Guide To Defensive Baking

This is about a young woman whose magical abilities are entirely related to bread dough. She can make gingerbread men dance. Her familiar is a sourdough starter. Her peaceful life in interrupted when she sees a corpse in the bakery. I haven't been pulled into a book so thoroughly in a long time. It's got tremendous amounts of plot twists and good sense. T. Kingfisher is Ursula Vernon's pseudonym. She couldn't find a publisher for it after 10 years, so it's self-published. Apparently it's somewhat sideways from standard YA fiction. [more inside]
posted by Nancy Lebovitz on Oct 27, 2020 - 16 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Pastry Week  Season 11, Ep 5

It's Pastry Week and the bakers put their stamp on a Cornish classic in the signature, go retro in the technical, and make a showstopping classic tart hidden within a cage made entirely from pastry
posted by bitteschoen on Oct 21, 2020 - 24 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Bread Week  Season 11, Ep 3

It's Bread Week, and the remaining bakers have a lot to prove in a sweet and savoury signature, a technical that honours the NHS, and an ambitious, artistic showstopper
posted by bitteschoen on Oct 7, 2020 - 21 comments

Book: The Art of Gluten-Free Sourdough Baking

Blending an old world sourdough technique with allergen-friendly ingredients
posted by aniola on Feb 2, 2020 - 0 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Final  Season 10, Ep 10

The last three bakers face a signature, technical, and showstopper challenge, but one is named StarBaker of 2019. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Nov 1, 2019 - 48 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Patisserie Week  Season 10, Ep 9

So pastry and patisserie are different now. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 25, 2019 - 34 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Festival Week  Season 10, Ep 7

The bakers face particularly complicated challenges linked to festivals. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 11, 2019 - 20 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Dessert Week  Season 10, Ep 6

After two weeks featuring brand-new themes, the GBBO returns to a well-worn classic: Desserts Week. [more inside]
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 4, 2019 - 45 comments

The Great British Bake Off: The Roaring Twenties  Season 10, Ep 5

The challenges inspired by the roaring twenties include a slapstick Signature and a tiered Showstopper special (Channel 4 description). [more inside]
posted by PearlRose on Sep 26, 2019 - 38 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Bread Week  Season 10, Ep 3

The bakers tackle a signature bake designed to be shared; a deceptively simple summer staple in the Technical; and an ambitious Showstopper (Channel 4 description). [more inside]
posted by PearlRose on Sep 12, 2019 - 26 comments

Tuca & Bertie: The Sugar Bowl  Season 1, Ep 1

It’s the end of an era as Bertie's boyfriend Speckle moves in and her best friend Tuca moves out —into the apartment right above her. [more inside]
posted by Going To Maine on May 21, 2019 - 27 comments

Book: Baking Powder Wars

First patented in 1856, baking powder sparked a classic American struggle for business supremacy. For nearly a century, brands battled to win loyal consumers for the new leavening miracle, transforming American commerce and advertising even as they touched off a chemical revolution in the world's kitchens. Linda Civitello chronicles the titanic struggle that reshaped America's diet and rewrote its recipes. [more inside]
posted by Homo neanderthalensis on Mar 15, 2019 - 1 comment

Nailed It! Holiday: All Episodes  Season 1, Ep 0

It's the "Nailed It!" holiday special you've been waiting for, with missing ingredients, impossible asks and desserts that look delightfully sad. [more inside]
posted by Gary on Dec 9, 2018 - 14 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Spice Week  Season 9, Ep 5

Say you'll be there for the halfway mark, which features the return of Terry and too much spice. This week's signature had the bakers spicing up a classic ginger cake, while the technical was a Middle Eastern pastry, Ma'amoul. Finally, we said goodbye to two bakers this week after a showstoppper challenge that involved a hanging biscuit chandelier.
posted by PearlRose on Sep 26, 2018 - 19 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Dessert Week  Season 9, Ep 4

It's dessert week! This week, our bakers tackle Meringue Roulades in the signature, attempt to create Raspberry Blancmange with 12 Langues de Chat biscuits in the technical, and wrap this sweet week up with a Melting Chocolate Ball dessert showstopper.
posted by PearlRose on Sep 19, 2018 - 19 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Bread Week  Season 9, Ep 3

It's that dread week, Bread Week on the third episode of this season's Great British Bake Off. Our bakers begin with a Chelsea Bun Signature Challenge, tackle Garlic Naan for their Technical Challenge, and vie for the top spot with spectacular Korovai Show Stoppers.
posted by halation on Sep 11, 2018 - 14 comments

Podcast: Team Human: Ep. 79 Suzanne Slomin "Feeding A Living Culture"

Douglas Rushkoff hosts the podcast, and begins this episode with a monologue about the idealism and reality of bitcoin and blockchain technology. The second part of the podcast is a discussion with Vermont baker and farmer Suzanne Slomin. They discuss the challenges of maintaining integrity and stewardship of the community in an increasingly extractive economy. [more inside]
posted by SteveInMaine on Apr 2, 2018 - 0 comments

Cook's Country

Anybody want to talk about the Dec / Jan issue of Cook's Country? What did you make? How'd it turn out? Where's that damn rooster?
posted by The corpse in the library on Feb 9, 2018 - 0 comments

The Great British Bake Off: The Final  Season 7, Ep 10

The three finalists face their three last challenges before one is crowned champion.
posted by Diablevert on Oct 26, 2016 - 23 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Tudor Week  Season 7, Ep 8

This week we are stepping back in time for a Bake Off first - Tudor Week. Mary and Paul have set three new challenges that embrace a time when Henry VIII reigned and a time of flamboyant banquets and impressive centre pieces that were Tudor showstoppers.
posted by Diablevert on Oct 12, 2016 - 21 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Victorian  Season 6, Ep 7

In a Bake Off first, the entire episode is devoted to the period of history that gave birth to modern baking - the Victorian era [more inside]
posted by everybody had matching towels on Sep 17, 2015 - 13 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Bread  Season 6, Ep 3

The ten remaining bakers face bread week. [more inside]
posted by everybody had matching towels on Aug 23, 2015 - 11 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Biscuits  Season 6, Ep 2

With cake week under their belts, the 11 remaining bakers must now prove themselves with biscuits. The signature challenge is biscotti. [more inside]
posted by mumkin on Aug 13, 2015 - 6 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Cake  Season 6, Ep 1

The baking challenge returns! The 12 new bakers don their aprons and head for the iconic tent. Their first signature challenge is to make a madeira cake. [more inside]
posted by mumkin on Aug 5, 2015 - 16 comments

The Great British Bake Off: The Final  Season 5, Ep 10

It's the final... from thousands of applicants just 12 bakers made it to the tent, and now only three remain. [more inside]
posted by mumkin on Oct 8, 2014 - 13 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Semi-Final: Patisserie  Season 5, Ep 9

It's semi-final time and the tension is palpable as the bakers begin Patisserie Week. The semi-finalists are challenged to make signature baklava—two different types of any flavour they like, but with the crisp flaky layers of perfectly pulled filo pastry. [more inside]
posted by mumkin on Oct 1, 2014 - 7 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Pastry  Season 5, Ep 7

Week Seven in the Bake Off tent sees the bakers tested on all kinds of weird and wonderful pastries. The remaining bakers are asked to make signature savoury parcels, ranging from pasties to Wellingtons to samosas. [more inside]
posted by mumkin on Sep 19, 2014 - 9 comments

The Great British Bake Off: Desserts  Season 5, Ep 4

It's dessert week in the Great British Bake Off tent. A meltdown is in store as the bakers attempt a Baked Alaska on the hottest day of the year. [more inside]
posted by dumdidumdum on Aug 28, 2014 - 10 comments

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