Warren Lee Cohen

Just ran a bread workshop at Emerson College in Sussex called, “The Art of Bread.” It is a pleasure to be baking around a wood fired oven with others. We had such fun baking and singing, being both serious and silly in pursuit of a deeper understanding of bread. It reminded me, yet again, just how important joy is in the whole process of preparing and eating food. Without joy food is merely substance. With joy, food is transformed into life giving nourishment that feeds body, soul and spirit.
This is an essential element in creating “Real Food.”

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I fired up the bread oven the very next day after building it and baked with it for the next week hundreds, or more likely thousands, of loaves of pita bread. The children were so enthusiastic to roll and bake their loaves that neither driving rain nor swelling mud could dull their energy. They loved watching the magic of these loaves puffing up in the oven, transforming form raw dough to fresh pita bread in less than a minute. These fearless bakers devoured their creations and then made loaves for family and friends.