Tag: bread making

  • Fresh From the Oven: Baking Bread in Sicily

    The Sicilian (or sicilianu) word for bread is pani. When you travel to Sicily you can learn how to bake traditional breads, like those in this bread basket during a hands-on cooking class.

  • Bread Making For Thanksgiving

    Let’s make bread together! In Sicily for Saint Joseph’s Day, or la Festa di San Giuseppe, as an act of prayer and thanksgiving, devotees to the patron saint of fathers, carpenters, and those who toil for work, spend days preparing beautifully crafted loaves for their March 19 feast day altars. Are you seeking protection or…

  • Stirring Sicily, Day 6: Hands-on Bread making 

    We are about to sit in the orchard and eat the fruits of our third Stirring Sicily class today: hands-on bread making! This is truly a marvelous experience… Cooking fresh, savory breads in a wood-burning (olive branches and sage are our kindling!) oven. I wish you could smell it. We are in heaven at Fontes…