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carbon salon

Posted by on Jun 29 2009 | Uncategorized

My long time friend Yoram has been working on a website to help people assess their carbon footprint and work towards limiting their impact on the environment. This is an exciting bit of social-environmental webware. Pay him a visit at:
http://www.carbonsalon.net/

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all spelt loaves?

Posted by on Jun 27 2009 | Baking Bread with Children, bread, Uncategorized

Jennifer Muller

Today at 6:20am
Hi Warren, I hope you are well. Your daughters look beautiful! I have been enjoying your bread cookbook but wanted to ask you a question about spelt. I used your recipe but cut out the white flour as I was trying to make it with just spelt. However, it wasn’t done on the inside when it should have been, and I noticed that the spelt just keeps taking in more and more water when kneading it. Do you have any suggestions for making just spelt bread with no other flour or do you always suggest using white or wheat with it? Thanks!

 

Today at 7:20pm
Hello jennifer,
Greetings to ol’ England. We are in sunny Canada and the girls are asleep – almost…
Always nice to talk about bread!
Baking with all spelt is nice and flavourful. As there is so little gluten to make the dough stiff, I tend to work it quite wet in the mixing bowl and kneed it as best I can in the bowl. it does not need as much kneading. then I put it in loaf tins and bake it as usual. If it is raw in the inside, then you could try baking it longe at a slightly cooler termperature.
Good Baking,
Warren

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little baker

Posted by on Jun 23 2009 | Uncategorized

Little baker

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What is art?

Posted by on Feb 23 2008 | art, bread

Fellow bread enthusiast, oven builder and sculptor Kiko Denzer sent me the following thoughts on art.

“Art is engagement. My intuitive sense of the word was greatly strengthened when I found that the word “art” shares a common root with all these:
Harmony, Arm, Articulate, Article, Arithmetic (the art of counting)
Reason, Ratio, Rational, Ratify
Order, Ordain, Coordinate
Reading, Rite, Ritual, Kindred, Hatred!
How can we know harmony (much less reason, order, ritual, kindred) if we only work with one or two of our many innate faculties and senses?”

A sense for the artistic, for the beautiful and an ability to enter fully into an artistic process lie at the core of our ability to connect with the creative principles of nature. Art is a gateway to the creative spirit that lives within and builds us all.

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Hyperbolic Orthogonal Dodecahedrons

Posted by on Feb 20 2008 | projective geometry

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While investigating the connections between projective geometry and Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity, I came upon this beautiful diagram that shows an infinite network of interconnected dodecahedrons (12 pentagons). If we can imagine that space is in fact structured, then what might that structure look like? Apparently there are many interesting solutions. This diagram is far more regular (Euclidean) than any proposed by Einstein which would be warped by the matter that created them. Matter creates the structure of space and the structure of space only exists in its interrelationship with matter.

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Exploring Projective Geometry

Posted by on Jan 07 2008 | projective geometry, workshops

An introduction to Modern Sense Free Thinking
with Warren Lee Cohen

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Do parallel lines ever meet? In Projective Geometry they do, at infinity. They lead us through simple line drawings into a realm of beauty and new possibilities for intuitive thinking where sense and spirit touch creative forces that lie within all of us.

8 sessions beginning Friday 18 January 8:00 to 9:30 pm
Stroud, Glos, UK

Cost £80
To register please email warrenleecohen[at]hotmail.com

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