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Breadcrumbs 2012
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2012
NB As this is an archive, some of the infomation and links given might no longer be current or correct.
Archive
January 2012
I hope that you had a great Christmas and New Year.
Diving straight into 2012, as reported in The Times today, next week Campaign ambassador Tom Herbert helps us to launch Bake Your Lawn. Also next week, Katie Caldesi is hosting a Real Bread workshop for teachers as part of our Lessons in Loaf scheme.
Further ahead, Square Food Foundation is hosting a similar workshop in Bristol; and we want to hear from you if you’d like to help people around the country give some love to their local Real Bread baker, be that one in the back of a cupboard, down their high street, or on the ends of their arms. Yes, Real Bread Maker Week is back and this time it’s not just about the machines.
And if you’re a Campaign member, you’ll see from the leaflet in the new True Loaf, we’re supporting GM Freeze’s action to stop planned GM wheat trials in Hertfordshire.
Upper Crust
Bake Your Lawn!
On Monday 23 January, Campaign ambassador Tom Herbert launches this year’s Bake Your Lawn scheme. We have wheat seeds for schools and community youth groups and a guide on how to grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it. For more details and how you can get involved if you’re a teacher, youth group leader, baker or miller, click here.
Teachers: learn to bake with TV cook and author Katie Caldesi
Last shout: If you’re a school cook or teacher and want to pass Real Bread skills on in the classroom, Katie Caldesi will get you started. As part of our Lessons in Loaf scheme, cookery book author and La Cucina Caldesi owner is hosting this one-off class at her Marylebone cookery school on Wednesday 25 January, and we only have a couple of places left. Book now!
Helping Bristol put Real Bread on The Menu
On Wednesday 21 February, Square Food Foundation in Bristol is hosting a Real Bread workshop for teachers and public sector cooks. Hosted for us by the Foundation at their brand-new purpose-built training kitchen, it will cover basic Real Bread making skills for the canteen and the classroom. For full details and application form, click here.
Campaign members
True Loaf competition
New True Loaf = new competition. The prizes are the books Bread Revolution by Campaign members and Big Bread Experiment stars Duncan Glendinning and Patrick Ryan; The Fabulous Baker Brothers by Campaign ambassador Tom Herbert and his brother Henry; and a ‘bag for loaf’ from Bud and Blossom. For more details about the latest issue, click here.
Project Artisan
Last year Campaign members will have read about this scheme from Leicestershire family brewer Everards in True Loaf. Tom Baker at loaf in Birmingham did, and is now on the verge of opening a new Community Supported Bakery and cookery school as an Everards tenant.
Course discounts
Don’t forget that many of the courses around the country that we have listed on our site offer discounts to Campaign members.
The professionals
The Real Bread Loaf Mark – join the first 50!
Last call to all Real Bread bakers who fancy a mention in the next bit of media work we’re about to do to promote The Real Bread Loaf Mark. If you bake Real Bread for sale, sign up for the scheme today!
Real Bread Maker Week
May might seem a long way away, but I bet you once thought that about the year 2000, didn’t you? And look where (when) we are now. So, we need your help now so we can let Britain know how the Campaign will be encouraging the nation to get baking and enjoying Real Bread during the week. Ideas include: offering discounts on a Real Bread course; giving a tour of your bakery; visiting a local school as part of our Lessons in Loaf scheme; setting up a drop-off/pick-up point for unloved bread machines. For more information and ideas, click here.
Real Bread Finder amnesty
It's January, which means we're asking all bakers who've listed loaves on our map to double check that they haven't accidentally added a loaf that's not what we call Real Bread (i.e. made without the use of ascorbic acid or any other food additive) and remove it, no questions asked. It's also a chance to make sure your details are up to date, including any new places at which people can buy your Real Bread. To amend your record, click here.
Good Food Network
If you’ve signed up for The Loaf Mark scheme, The Good Food Network now allows you to add it to your profile on their site. For details of how to get on the GFN directory, click here.
Baking class operators
The Wood Fired Oven UK forum is - well, the clue’s in the name, really. Like us, they have an open invitation to anyone running wood-fired oven and/or bakery classes/workshops (especially sourdough) to add details to their site, which you can do here.
Real Bread job vacancies
Artisan Bread Organic in Whitstable and baked DERBY are the latest bakeries to post Real Bread job vacancies on our site. For details, click here.
Sippets
- GM wheat? Not In My Loaf! New Real Bread blog from GM Freeze
- Whilst the rise of Real Bread continues, there’s more bad news for employees of the big bakers – both Warburtons and Hovis owner Premier Foods have announced more staff cuts.
- The Food Standards Agency has issued advice on new gluten labelling legislation.
- Episode 4 of The Fabulous Baker Brothers (25 January) features sourdough.
