November 10th: Sourdough Basics
November 10th: Sourdough Basics
November 10th, 3:30pm to 6pm, at Gracie’s Apizza and Starter Bread
Our first Cooking by Hand workshop for November, inspired by the Paul Bertolli cookbook that has inspired Gracie’s restaurant, our setting for these workshops, and consequently its staff.
Join Brennan Johnson for a one-day, hands-on workshop on sourdough bread making. We’ll be covering all the fundamentals of natural leavening, from sourdough starters to flour choice to baking in the home oven.
We’ll be using the Gracie’s APizza and Starter Bread space to mix, shape, and bake dough together. Because the sourdough bread process takes longer than our allotted class time, we’ll be mixing a dough from scratch and working with some doughs that Brennan has already made in advance. One batch will be divided and shaped by the group, so everyone has a chance to practice shaping, and another batch will be baked, so that every step of the process is covered.
Participants will get to take home a loaf of baked bread and a small container of sourdough starter, as well as a recipe to be able to replicate the dough at home.
Capacity: 12 students. Minimum: 6 students. If we do not reach 6 sign ups by a week before the workshop, we will cancel it and send out full refunds to those who signed up. We will send out an email during the week leading up to the workshop either way, as a reminder about the class or, if necessary, to cancel it.
Location: Starter Bread. 7304 N. Leavitt Ave Unit B, Portland, OR 97203
Time: 3pm to 6pm
Capacity: 12 students
Instructors:
Brennan Johnson
Brennan’s fascination with food culture and history was catalyzed by a trip to Western Europe in 2009 to study communal brick ovens. He began baking bread soon after, baking out of his father’s own brick oven and selling at local farmers markets during his high school summers. He has a degree from Whitman College in Environmental Humanities — which, for him, meant exploring our culture’s relationship to food — an herbalism certificate from Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine, and has worked in restaurants and bakeries across the U.S., Japan, and Europe. Gentle Rhythms is a way to piece together those disparate experiences, combining his curiosity in food studies with his love of hands-on cooking. These days, he lives in Portland, Oregon, but is usually found on the road learning about foodways wherever he is.
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Classes provided by these instructors are hands-on and participation is at your own risk.
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