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Pão Caseiro: A glimpse into Portuguese tradition/Guest

Pão Caseiro: A glimpse into Portuguese tradition/Guest

| October 12, 2011 | 11 Comments

Welcome back to our guest contributor, Carolyng! She is sharing another one of her beautiful traditions, making all of us here at Zomppa hungry! Who doesn’t love the smell of fresh bread in the oven? Often times it is easier to buy bread than to make it, but not in this case. Pão Caseiro, translated [...]

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Kneading Bread: Photo of the Day

Kneading Bread: Photo of the Day

| September 30, 2011 | 0 Comments

In the process of my second loaf of bread. Sticky.

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Whole Wheat Bread: Frank Food

Whole Wheat Bread: Frank Food

| August 24, 2011 | 5 Comments

Frank food is a series that wants your opinion about what is FRANK food and what is FRANKENSTEIN food. Please share your opinion! You walk into the store and have to buy one. Which one is MORE FRANK to you?

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Monkey’s First Bread: Photo of the Day

Monkey’s First Bread: Photo of the Day

| June 2, 2011 | 12 Comments

My little sister, aka Monkey, has a weird lifelong fascination with bread (longer story there…), but she finally tried her hand at making a loaf (instead of trying to feel up the entire bread aisle). Looks yummy, Monkey!

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Guest/Mince Pies with Brandy Glaze

Guest/Mince Pies with Brandy Glaze

| January 6, 2011 | 7 Comments

Welcome to Guest Contributor, Amber of Sprinkled with Flour, one of our favorite foodie friends who writes and cooks with style, flavor, and a lot of love. Born in Wales and now in the Missouri Ozarks, this dynamic mother has an amazing eye (check out her photos) and a distinguishing palate (check out her recipes). [...]

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Bread – Flour & Plastic: Win a Featured Post!

Bread – Flour & Plastic: Win a Featured Post!

| October 14, 2010 | 6 Comments

Pop quiz #1: What is bread of? Pop quiz #2: What is azodicarbonamide? If you eat at fast food restaurants, then you should know that the bread you’re eating is probably made with azodicarbonamide. Don’t know what that is? Keep reading. The last couple weeks, we introduced Label Thursday. We know. It doesn’t have pretty [...]

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TidBit of the Day: Hot Stuff

TidBit of the Day: Hot Stuff

| October 11, 2010 | 4 Comments

Source: Hot Bread Kitchen A great organization called Hot Bread Kitchen works with low-income women and their families to preserve baking traditions from all over the world. From Mexico to Morocco, this  unique social entrepreneurs distributes its breads all over New York City. Their breads range from hand-made tortillas to lavash to focaccia to challah to [...]

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Guest/Crystal: At the Break of a New Dawn

Guest/Crystal: At the Break of a New Dawn

| January 1, 2010 | 5 Comments

We are excited to feature our first guest contributor: Crystal! We hope to see her more often here – she’s quite an accomplished photographer and has a strange obsession for bread and bakeries and all the mysteries that emerge from the hours before the sun breaks for a new day…or year. Happy New Year! – [...]

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The breads of Ireland and the UK

The breads of Ireland and the UK

| July 15, 2009 | 0 Comments

Following in the footsteps of my fellow Zomppa ladies, Belinda and Elyssa, who blogged about bread, I thought I would add my little musings on my bread encounters whilst here in Ireland. I am currently in Northern Ireland visiting my parents. I actually spent my teenage years here, and have to admit that I never [...]

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Pharaoh and The Hogan Family

Pharaoh and The Hogan Family

| July 9, 2009 | 2 Comments

What do an Egyptian pharaoh and the Hogan Family have to do with food? In fact, what do they have do with each other? Rameses is in the Ten Commandments with Rameses every Easter, and Easter is time for eggs and large family brunches…. Sandy Duncan was in The Hogan Family, the 80s family sitcom, [...]

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