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Back issues of Breadcrumbs, the monthly e-newsletter from the Real Bread Campaign
Back issues of Breadcrumbs, the monthly e-newsletter from the Real Bread Campaign
As this page is an archive of back issues, please note that some of the infomation and links it contains might no longer be current or correct.
Thanks to Kenneth Horne of Pinpastry, Ann Cudworth at Doughworks, Ana Jones at Little Salkeld Watermill, Tobias Schwenn at Slow Bread, and Tom Herbert at Hobbs House Bakery for passing on Real Bread making skills in their local primary schools as part of our scheme. Lessons in Loaf will now be rolled out to schools nationally in January and so if you're a professional baker and would like to take part, please drop us a line. If you're a primary school teacher, you can now download our FREE pack.
I'll start with a thank you: firstly to those of you who have joined as a memberin the last month and secondly (but equally) to you if you have just
renewed your membership for a second year. We're so grateful for you
demonstrating your continuing support in this way.
I'd also like to say hi to you if you were one of the 85 or so people who came along to the Real Bread night at the Unicorn Groceryin Chorlton the other evening. I'm sorry (and more than a tad miffed)
that I had to leave early and so didn't get to chat to any of you.
So, without further ado, here's some of what's going on in the world of Real Bread.
PS If you know a great local bakery that isn't on the Real Bread Finder, please pop in and suggest that they add any loaves that are what we define as Real Bread (at a basic level this is simply 100% natural and additive-free) to the directory.
True Loaf
The next issue of True Loaf magazine is with our designer and will be with Campaign membersbefore you can say 'just what on earth is in the pappy substance that's
holding that £4 supermarket sandwich together?' As well as an interview
with Bread Hero Tom Baker of the Community Supported Bakery, Loaf, it also features a chance to win a bread making course at River Cottage (worth £170), or an apprenticeship Saturday at The phoenix Bakery with award-winning master baker, Aidan Chapman (worth £150) or a Real Bread baker's starter kit from Bakery Bits (worth £130).
Knead to Know: the Real Bread starter
We
have finished compiling our support pack for people wanting to start
baking Real Bread for their local communities. With contributions
dozens of people who've been there, including Andrew Whitley of Bread Matters, Aidan Chapman of The Phoenix Bakery, Dan McTiernan of The Handmade Bakery and Paul Merry of Panary, the pack will be published in late November. For more details of how and when you can get hold of a copy, watch this space
Lessons in Loaf
Earlier
this month, Ken Horne of Pinpastry gained the proud accolade of running
the first Real Bread making class of the pilot phase of our programme
and Little Salkeld watermillwill be running a class in early November. We continue to work with a
number of other bakers to get dates in the diary to run classes in
their local primary schools this term. If your bakery missed the call
earlier in the year but you're willing and able to run a class before
Christmas, please get in touch with Chris.
Whether you're a member or not, we'd love to help you let the world
know about your Real Bread events. All you need to do is visit our calendar and add the details. Simples, as that blimmin' meerkat would say.
Eat Dorset Food fair 16th & 17th October
A
weekend celebrating the best of Dorset. The dozens of local food
producers include The Phoenix Bakery and Town Mill bakery. At 1.30pm on
Sunday, Real Bread Campaign member Aidan Chapman of The Phoenix Bakery
in Weymouth will be doing a demo in the cookery theatre.
Good Food for Local Communities - What's the Recipe? 20th October
A
day at the Old Library, Leamington Spa of information sharing and
networking for community food projects (such as Community Supported
Bakeries) from across the country. Organised by Sustain and the Soil
Association, this event is for new and established groups and aims to
inspire best practice, share learning and innovation, and give
participants the opportunity to ask specific questions of existing
projects.
Breadwinner: A bread fair 23rd October
Home-bakers
who have been nurturing a sourdough culture as part of the Exponential
Growth project will return to Loughborough bringing their prize loaves.
Visit the bread fair to hear about the extraordinary expansion of the
yeast empire and to taste bread from Loughborough and beyond. If you
would like to bring your own loaf to enter the Breadwinner competition
you can still order a starter kit by emailing
info@exponentialgrowth.org
Dartmouth Food Festival 20th 24th October
Campaign ambassador Richard Bertinet will be swinging by and Tom and Will from Hobbs House Bakery will be doing demos.
Rude Health bread baking competition 29th October
Rude
Health and Virtuous Bread have joined forces to find the best recipe
for home baked bread that uses Rude Health food. Entries need to reach
Rude Health between 25-29th October. Click here for full details, rules and what not.
sippet [sɪpɪt]
n (Cookery) a small piece of something, esp a piece of toast or fried
bread eaten with soup or gravy [used as diminutive of sop; see -et] Collins English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged
A couple of new speciality loaves from Premier Foods? Some rather special unnecessary additives found in Oxford and Northern Ireland...
I can hardly believe that it's a year since we launched our membershipscheme. Thanks to those of you who have joined as well as helping to
strengthen our network, your subscription fee really helps to ensure
that we can continue our work. If your membership is due for renewal,
we'll send you a reminder to ensure you can continue receiving copies
of True Loaf and have access to The Real Baker-eand special offers. As if you needed any more encouragement, read on
for a sneaky glimpse at the amazing Christmas competition we've lined
up for you
Also, it's harvest time, with festivals and other eventstaking place all over the shop. One particularly exciting on the list
below is a big old Real Bread get together in Manchester.
Well, enough jibber jabber from me, let's get to the good stuff
Happy baking,
Chris
PS
Just so's you know, you don't have to be a baker to become a Campaign
member and membership is independent of a listing on the Real Bread
Finder
True Loaf Christmas competition
The
next issue of True Loaf (winging its way to Campaign members in
mid-October) will feature a fantastic Christmas competition with a
stockingful of prizes, including a bread making course at River Cottage (worth £170), an apprenticeship Saturday at The Phoenix Bakery with award-winning master baker, Aidan Chapman (worth £150) and a Real Bread baker's starter kit from Bakery Bits.
New offer
Bread in Fife,
kindly is offering Campaign members a discount on a bread making
class. For more information on this and over a dozen other offers,
please visit our courses page.
Campaign logo thank you
Thanks to Campaign members Target Catering, Breadlink and Peter Walmesleyfor adding a Real Bread supporter button and link to their websites.
If you also have put one on your site, please let us know.
Do you have a mobile bread oven?
We
receive an invitation to do a Real Bread (often in the form of pizza)
making workshop at an event somewhere in the country almost every
week. In many cases, they are outdoors, meaning that we can only seize
the opportunity if we can find a Campaign member with a mobile oven
who's happy to volunteer. If that's you, please get in touch.
Real Bread and other catering opportunities at London 2012 Olympics
A
complimentary event examining the London 2012 catering strategy and the
opportunities available to businesses in the Food, Drinks and
Hospitality sector. Tuesday 28th September 2010, 6pm - 9pm, Central
Hall Westminster, Storey's Gate, London, SW1H 9NH To reserve your place
at this event please complete the online registration form or visit www.londonbusinessnetwork.com/events
We've listed a few below and you can read (or add) further details of these and more on our events calendar.
Breadmaking competition and baking demos 25 & 26 September
As
part of the Aldeburgh Food & Drink Festival, Campaign member W
& H Marriage & Sons the flour millers is holding an amateur
bread making competition and bread making workshops at Snape Maltings
over the Festival weekend.
Harvest Festival 26th September
Master
baker and Campaign member Vincent Talleu will be teaming up with
Capital Growth to invite visitors young and not so young to make tasty
veggie Real Bread pizzas with fresh produce from The Allotment Garden
at Regent's Park in London.
The Power of Flour 1st October
Community
Chef Robin Van Creveld and Paul Nicholson will be running The Power of
Flour at Plumpton Mill in Lewes, East Sussex. The workshop will cover
the history and practical engineering of water powered milling and the
alchemy of simple, handcrafted bread. Last we heard, they only had a
couple of spaces left
Real Bread meet and eat at Unicorn Grocery 11th October
Join us at Unicorn Groceryin Chorlton, Manchester for an evening of tasting and talks from a host
of artisan bakers and traditional millers. Alongside Bread Matters
author Andrew Whitley will be speakers from Unicorn's own suppliers
Little Salkeld Watermill, The Handmade Bakery, Saker Vegetarian Foods
and Paul's Bakery, as well as Chris from Real Bread Campaign HQ. There
will also be chance to chat over snacks - including a selection of Real
Breads - perhaps washed down with a drop or two from the real ale bar.
Good Food for Local Communities - What's the Recipe? 20th October
A
day at the Old Library, Leamington Spa of information sharing and
networking for community food projects (such as Community Supported
Bakeries) from across the country. Organised by Sustain and the Soil
Association, this event is for new and established groups and aims to
inspire best practice, share learning and innovation, and give
participants the opportunity to ask specific questions of existing
projects.
Rude Health bread baking competition
Rude
Health and Virtuous Bread have joined forces to find the best recipe
for home baked bread that uses Rude Health food. Entries need to reach
Rude Health between 25-29 October.
sippet [sɪpɪt]
n (Cookery) a small piece of something, esp a piece of toast or fried
bread eaten with soup or gravy [used as diminutive of sop; see -et]
Collins English Dictionary Complete and Unabridged
Seed to sandwich in Brixton
Pictures from a day with the Brockwell Bake Association at the 2010 Urban Green Fair
Bertinet branching out
Campaign
member Richard Bertinet's bakery has launched a new range of more than
a dozen organic Real Breads. They will be available in Riverford
Organic delivery boxes in much of the south west and Wales. Bread will
also be supplied to a number of top notch restaurants and delicatessens
in London, Cardiff and the south west. http://www.bertinet.com/
Prize-winning Real Bread
Campaign member More? Artisan scooped a gong at the Baking Industry Awards, The Phoenix Bakery picked one up at the Taste of Dorset awards, while at Taste of the West,The Bertinet Bakery, Bordeaux Quay, Hobbs House Bakery, Manna from
Devon, Pullins, The Thoughtful Bread Company and Vicky's Bread all
grabbed shiny things for their mantelpieces.
Another in a long line of TV shows that we've been talking to
Food
with Jay Rayner on Channel 4, Wednesday 22nd September, 8pm will be
looking at the state of bread in Britain. [update: sadly, after weeks
of long conversations with the show's producers, this item got dropped]
A comment on the state of British industrial baking, delivered via the medium of Japanese Manga:
Member or supporter?
Just
to clear up any confusion, our supporters are all of you who have
signed up to receive Breadcrumbs or have added your loaves to our Real
Bread Finder. Campaign members are those of you who've kindly gone one
step further by sticking your hand in your wallet (well, PayPal) and
paid to join us. If you haven't yet made this important jump, please click here to find out why and how we'd love you to do so and what's in if for you.
True Loaf
The new issue of our magazine True Loafis out now. Exclusively for Campaign members, this issue features
articles including one from 'that baker off of the telly', Tom Herbert,
a report from the Lighthouse Bakery, the latest of our Bread Heroes,
news, pictures and even a Local Loaf Lover poster on the back.
Hello again or, if you have just joined us as a campaign member, thank you and welcome.
Welcome
also if you are one of the hundreds of people who have signed up for
Breadcrumbs over the past month. For details of how you can support
our work by (and some of the benefits of) becoming a member, please visit our website.
From
where I'm sitting, the fight for the rise of Real Bread seems to be
gathering pace. Events that we've organised centrally and, more
importantly, action some of you have been taking locally, keep coming
thick and fast. Here's a round up of some of what's been going on over
the past month or coming up soon.
Of course, members can keep each other up to date or come together to plan their delicious or dastardly doughy deeds in The Real Baker-e.
Happy baking
Chris
Local Loaves for Lammas
For
a second year, on the weekend of 31st July-1st August, we're
encouraging the nation to bake or buy a Local Loaf for Lammas. The end
of July might seem a long way off but to make this year's event even
bigger and better than last year, we need YOUR HELP NOW,
please. The sooner we know about your event, the better the chances of
getting media coverage to help raise local and national awareness of
your business/organisation and the Campaign in general. For
inspiration, please visit the Local Loaves for Lammas page and then get in touch with Chris Young ASAP.
Real Bread is True Food
This Saturday (15th May), True Food Co-opin Reading will be celebrating the opening of its new shop. Thanks to
an epiphany at last November's Rise of Real Bread conference, they'll
be stocking Real Bread from the Natural Bread Company, whose founder William Black, was a speaker at the event, as well as from the Brown Sugar Bakery.
Slow Food Cornwall Bread Day
This
Sunday (16th May) Slow Food Cornwall invites you to celebrate the art
of Real Bread. They are bringing together some of the finest local
breads, accoutrements and those in the know in Ladock, Cornwall, for a
day of making, tasting and talking all about bread. For more
information, please email Pippa on pippavanwelie@yahoo.co.uk
More than bread alone
This
Soil Association course will look at the magical process of making
bread from growing grain through to making your own bread oven and
baking your loaf. Taking place at Emerson College in
East Sussex from Tuesday 1st June to Thursday 4th June, it will explore
the cultural significance of bread with stories and folklore.
Camden Green Fair
At the kind invitation of the London Community Resource Network, on Sunday 6th June, Campaign member David Jones of Manna From Devon will be wheeling his mobile bread oven into Regent's Park in London and helping visitors to the Camden Green Fair to turn ingredients from our friends at Unpackaged into Real Bread and pizzas. We've also dragged Andy Forbes in again to chat about the Brockwell Bake Association's work in South London teaching kids about the whole Real Bread story from seed to sandwich.
Co-operatives Fortnight
This
year sees the UK's first ever Co-operatives Fortnight. From 19th June
to 3rd July, co-operatives and community initiatives up and down the
country will be promoting their business and the case for co-operation.
Perhaps you are (or would like to be) involved in a Community Supported
Bakery set up as a co-operative or are working on getting Real Bread on
the menu of a food co-op? If so, please visit
http://www.thereisanalternative.coop/ for more details.
Share your event
If you have a Real Bread event planned, let us help you to share the news by adding it to our events calendar.
If you are a Real Bread Campaign member and would like to get together
with fellow members locally to organise an event or simply have a venue
that you would be happy for members to use for an event, please use The Real Baker-e to put out a call to action.
Food Junctions
What a
great two days of cob oven baking we had at Camley Street Natural Park
as part of University College London's Food Junctions event. Thanks to
Andy Forbes of the Brockwell Bake Association for pulling everything
together, artisan baker Vincent Talleufor his baguette shaping masterclass and to Campaign volunteers Dilly,
Sarah, Sushila and Mark for helping to make the event a success. Click here for pictures.
National Real Bread Maker Week
Thanks to all of you who either organised or got involved in bread machine shenanigans during the first ever National Real Bread Maker Week.
Between us, we drummed up plenty of media interest for the campaign,
with mentions from The Observer Magazine, The Daily Telegraph Magazine,
The Times, The London Evening Standard, British Baker magazine and a
range of local media. If you have stories or photos to share, please
get in touch.
Real Food Festival
Thanks
to Campaign working party member and Real Food Festival director Philip
Lowery (and his team) for making us so welcome again this year. You can
see snaps from the weekend and read a quick whiz through the weekend on our blog.
London social
We are a
network of people who share a real passion for Real Bread so why not
seize the opportunity to meet some of them? Having shared a few pints
of real ale earlier this month with fellow members and watched contact
details being exchanged, I can highly recommend that Campaign members
in other parts of the country set up similar informal get togethers.
The best way of finding who's in your area and fancies organising a
meet up perhaps in the pub but maybe in a bakery or at a mill - is inThe Real Baker-e.
The Sheila McKechnie Awards
The
SMK Awards is an annual programme for emerging campaigners. Winners
get support in building their campaigning skills and it is a great
opportunity to raise awareness for a cause. You might not see yourself
as a 'campaigner' but if you are demonstrating commitment to a cause
they want to hear from you. They also invite people to nominate someone
else. So, if you are or know someone fighting the fight for Real Bread
in whatever way, please visit the SMK Foundation website.
Where we're at
Just a quick update on the key Campaign outcomes we have agreed with the Big Lottery Fund's Local Food scheme, our main funder:
Membership We now have over 250 paid up members, whose subscription fees help to fund our work now and whose continuing support will be vital in helping to ensure the Campaign is able to continue after 2013.
Lessons in Loaf We've found bakers to pass on Real Bread skills, have experts translating support materials into teacherspeak and are following up invitations to local primary schools to take part in the pilot scheme.
Bakers' support pack Having set up an online support service in The Real Baker-e, our Bakers' Angels and other experienced Real Bread bakers are hard at work writing sections for the manual. We are also working with the Real Bread bakers that we know to create a network of those willing to offer voluntary apprenticeships.
Helping to get Real Bread on the menu We continue to invite Real Bread bakers to let us know if they would like to help to make Real Bread available through food access projects (such as food co-ops and community cafes) and public sector institutions (such as hospitals, prisons and schools) and work with other Sustain projects to make those connections.
True Loaf your shout
True
Loaf is the quarterly magazine for Real Bread Campaign members and so
we'd like to hear from you what have you been up to and what are you
planning in your own fight for Real Bread? Everyone has something that
could inform or inspire others so please send us your letters,
pictures, cartoons, news snippets, articles (or article ideas), and
recipes and we'll share our favourites with other members. General
themes for forthcoming issues will be: local loaves (July-September)
and baking for your community (October-December). For deadlines and
more information, please get in touch with Chris Young.
Community food and climate change
A new report by Making Local Food Work says that community-led food enterprises are up for the challenge of climate change.
Baker with family wanted for BBC One series
As advertised in the March issue of Breadcrumbs,
Wall to Wall productions are still looking for an outgoing baker and
family with children aged between 8 - 21 years who can relocate for a
couple of months this summer and 'rise to the challenge of living and
trading their way through 100 years of British history.' If you are
interested, please contact Zoe A'Court on 0207 482 6137 or
zoe.a'court@walltowall.co.uk
Hi,
Spring's here! I hope I'm not speaking too soon as we'll be posting the spring edition of True Loaf magazine to campaign members this week.
Also upon us before we know it will be National Real Bread Maker Week,
which runs from 1st May. A gang from Real Bread HQ will be doing our
bit for the week at the Real Food Festival (if you are a member, you've
got until this Sunday to buy your discounted ticket) and there will be other campaign members and friends around the country getting involved.
Something else that's been keeping me busy is the reaction to Are Supermarket Bloomers Pants? the report from our nine-month investigation of supermarket in-store bakeries.
So,
for details of all of this, more events, what's been going on in the
world of Real Bread and what's coming up, please read on.
National Real Bread Maker Week
We need your help now. Running from 1st 9th May, National Real Bread Maker Week is the perfect chance to dig out an unloved bread machine and use it to bake Real Bread or pass it on to someone who will. Little Salkeld Watermill, Union Mill in Cranbrook and Doves Farm are amongst those who'll be helping us all to get the best out of our machines with the finest flours, whilst Freecycle, Freegle, Let's All Share and Bright Sparks are some of the organisations helping with the 'pass it on' bit.
Amongst
others, The Daily Telegraph will be featuring the event in their food
diary, so whether you will be getting baking at home, hosting a swap
shop or holding an event, we'd love to help share with others what
you'll be doing. Join in or find out more here.
Win!
If you post your own Real Bread machine recipe and photo on the National Real Bread Maker Week page on Facebook and you could win one of two pairs of VIP tickets to the Real Food Festival, where the favourite loaf will be picked by a panel of celebrity judges, including Thomasina Miers.
The Real Food Festival
Real Bread Campaign member the Real Food Festivalhas
invited us along to help lay a trail of Real Breadcrumbs throughout the
show. Highlights include campaign working party member Richard
Bertinet ranting on the Rude Health soapbox, the Festival Loaf
competition and the judging of the National Real Bread Maker Week
competition. We'll be there to run the Real Bread swap shop of skills,
ideas, tips and bread machines.
National Mills Weekend
On 8th and 9th May, Real Bread Campaign member the mills section of the Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings is holding its annual National Mills Weekend. Around the country, members of the Traditional Cornmillers Guildand
other wind and water powered mills will be inviting people inside for
tours, talks, Real Bread making lessons and general family fun.
Food Junctions
We've teamed up with University College London and the Brockwell Bake Association (BBA) to organise clay oven bread making for Food Junctions.
On 1st May, Andy Forbes of the BBA will be teaching a small group how
to fire up the clay oven at Camley Street Natural Park (behind King's
Cross, London), followed by pizza making with kids. Adults are also
welcome but only if they promise to behave themselves... On the Sunday
morning there will be baguette shaping and baking with young French
baker, Vincent Talleu.
Pants?
Well,
it seems the suspicions of many could well be true. After nine month
of store visits, phone calls, letters and emails, we could only find
one supermarket chain that was producing any Real Bread in its in-store
bakeries. The Real Bread PR machine kicked into action and we got the
story on page three of The Daily Mail and also into The Daily Telegraph, as well as trade publications The Grocer, Bakery and Snacks, Food Manufacture and International Supermarket News. The story is now making its way around the world and to date has been featured in the Netherlands, Hungary and Canada. You can read the report Are supermarket bloomers pants? here. The report includes a section of what you can do about the situation.
True Loaf
The
spring issue features Loaf Crust and Crumb author, Silvija Davidson,
chatting to Bread Hero, Richard Bertinet; Tom Baker of Loaf visiting
Charlecote Mill in Warwickshire; food campaigner Angie Greenham asking
if Real Bread is already a choice for the majority of British
consumers; a report from the BioFach organic trade fair by campaign
co-founder Andrew Whitley; and even a free poster. To receive this
exclusive quarterly full colour magazine, join the Real Bread Campaign now.
Advice for your home-based bakery
Finding
ways to get more Real Bread into local communities is a key goal for
the Real Bread Campaign. One way of doing this is people baking at home
for neighbours. To help inspire anyone considering this idea, Emma
Jones, founder of the home business website enterprisenation.com and author of Spare Room Start Up how to start a business from home and the forthcoming Working 5 to 9 how to start a business in your spare time, shares with us some top tips. If you already have a home-based bakery and would like to share your own experiences with others, please let us know.
Bread oven restoration in the sun
Steve
Watson is looking for volunteers to help research and restore his
400-year old four au pain in Beaumont Du Lac, France. He is planning to
carry out the project from late July through to late August or early
September. Time commitment from any willing volunteer would be
anything from a day upwards. If you have experience of
building/restoration, especially brick ovens; could help research the
history of this boulangerie or are willing simply to help out as a
labourer and learn along the way, please email steve@northesk.co.uk
Who's what where?
As
a fully paid up member of the Real Bread Campaign, you are part of a
growing national network of over two hundred bakers, millers, retailers
and individuals. The thing is many of you don't know each other. Later
this month, Chris Young is organising an informal get together for
members in and around London as a chance to meet up and chat over a
drink or two wouldn't you like to see something similar round your
way? For details, please visit The Real Baker-e.
Real Bread button
Do
you have a website or blog? Please show your support and help us to
raise the profile of the campaign by linking to our website using one of these buttons. You can find your membership number on the card we sent you when you joined.
Bakers Angels
Are you a professional Real Bread baker and really need to pick the brains of an expert? Well, the Real Bread Bakers Angels are hereand
boy do we have some brains for you to pick. Post your message in the
Real Baker-e and it'll be seen by campaign members including the likes
of Tom Herbert of Hobbs House, Emmanuel Hadjiandreou of Judges Bakery,
Peter Cook of SC Price, Troels Bendix of The Celtic Bakers, Andrew
Whitley of Bread Matters, Clive Mellum of Shipton Mill, Paul Barker of
Cinnamon Square and many more.
Apprenticeships
We
are looking at the possibility of developing a national Real Bread
apprenticeship/skills exchange network. We would like to hear from you
if: you could help to develop the scheme (suggested good practice,
baker/apprentice agreements etc.), would consider taking on an
apprentice or taking part in an exchange programme bit like a French
exchange at school, except it would only involve professionals visiting
each other's bakeries in the UK.
Local food networks
One
of the required outcomes of the campaign is to help make Real Bread
available in local food schemes. Therefore, we need to hear from you if
you would be interested in discussing establishing links with a local
scheme such as a: vegetable box delivery, food buying co-operative or
hub, community owned and run cafe, shop or market. If you do any of
this already, please get in touch to so we can share your knowledge and
experience with others.
Competition for professional bakers
The
Alliance for Bakery Students and Trainees is a non-profit organisation
run by volunteers from the bakery industry. Their annual conference
(11th 13th June) includes a baking competition for students, trainees
and professional bakers and we think it would be great if some of the
prizes are won by Real Bread bakers. Entry is free and prizes include
bakery training trips to France, Belgium and Germany. For more
information and an entry form, please email this chap from Hovis:
graham.duckworth@premierfoods.co.uk
Bakery manager required
Campaign
member Cinnamon Square is looking for an experienced bakery manager for
their new site in Ruislip. To apply, please send your CV to
paulbarker@cinnamonsquare.com For more information email Paul or call
him on: 07878 558905
ABO needs organic Real Bread licensee
Artisan
Bread Organic (ABO) is looking to license an organic bakery in/around
London, ideally with an established delivery system in the capital, to
produce around 2500 loaves per week of their organic rye, spelt and
wheat breads. ABO would pay by the piece for making the bread, provide
a long-established customer base for you to build upon and do all the
admin work. Contact Ingrid Greenfield on mail@artisanbread-abo.co.uk or
01227 771 881
Real Bread on the Telly : Towards the end of March, the BBC had a bit of a Real Bread feast. In under a week, it broadcast three programmes featuring campaign members and friends. First up was Bread: A loaf affair, which featured Andrew Whitley and John Lister of Shipton Mill. The following night, Tom Herbert of Hobbs House Baker went In Search of the Perfect Loaf, taking in Sharpham Park along the way. Scoring the hat trick was Raymond Blanc, who in revealing his Kitchen Secrets:Bread, visited Shipton Mill. You can still catch all three for a limited time on the BBC iPlayer.
Open Day in Shaftesbury: On 3rd May, campaign member Panary and our friends at Cann Mills are holding a joint open day.
More events
More companions
More ways to get involved
Y'know that 1973 advert for a certain brand of wrapped sliced stuff, the one where a lad pushes his delivery bike up a steep cobbled street to the strains of Dvořαk's 9th symphony? Well, don't let the boy's northern accent fool you, the incline up which he was shunting is Gold Hill in Shaftestbury, Dorset.
Through the power of Twitter,
recently I adopted the unwanted bread machine of a fellow Tweeter. I'm
now spending my weekends busy breaking the rule book that says 'you
must only use instant yeast' to find the secret of breadmaker sourdough
and other longer ferment Real Breads. I'll let you know how things go
but to know why I'm doing this, please read on.
Happy baking
Chris
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National Real Bread Maker Week
From
1st-9th May, the first ever National Real Bread Maker Week is the
chance for everyone with an unloved bread maker to dig it out and get
baking Real Bread or pass it on to someone who will. To make this week
a success we need your help NOW.
Exclusive ticket discount for the Real Food Festival, 7th-9th May 2010
We're busy finalising our plans for a trail of real breadcrumbs to run through the Real Food Festival at
Earl's Court in London. In the meantime, our friends the organisers
are kindly offering advance tickets to Real Bread Campaign members at
discount of up to 50% off the on-the-door price. If you are a member,
you can find your discount code in The Real Baker-e. If not, then join us now! Full details of the offer are on our membership discounts page.
Campaign volunteer needed in London
We're looking for a volunteer to join Chris here in the office for a day or two a week to help secure more funding for the Real Bread Campaign's work.
Last call for True Loaf
Work
is well underway on the next issue of True Loaf magazine. Do you have
something you've done recently or something coming up over the next few
months that you'd like to share with campaign members? The deadline
for news items is next week.
Also, we're always keen to receive your news and stories for Breadcrumbs and the Real Bread blog;
pictures, articles or feature suggestions for future editions of True
Loaf. Members can look for or share stories, recipes and tips at any
time in The Real Baker-e
In search of the perfect loaf
Follow
award-winning artisan baker and Real Bread Campaign working party
member Tom Herbert in his search to bake the perfect loaf that will win
him first prize at the National Organic Food Awards...BBC Four,
Thursday 25th March at 9pm. More>>
Easter recipe
Easter's
coming so soon it'll be time to start baking some seasonal favourites.
Thanks to cook and food campaigner, Suzanne Wynn for her recipe for
Real hot cross buns.
Bread Hero
For those of you not yet a campaign member, we've published an excerpt of our Bread Hero interview with Duncan of The Thoughtful Bread Company, which first appeared in issue 1 of True Loaf.
Real Bread in Country Living
The
April issue (out now) of Country Living magazine stars a four-page
feature on Real Bread, including interviews we set up for campaign
co-founder, Andrew Whitley of Bread Matters and campaign member The
Handmade Bakery, plus mentions for several other members and
supporters. Unsurprisingly, the bread making day with campaign working
party member Emmanuel Hadjiandreou at Judges Bakery proved popular and has sold out already.
Oxford Symposium 9th 11th July
The
theme this year is cured, fermented and smoked foods. Speakers include
Harold McGee and papers being presented include 'Transylvania charcoal
coated bread' and 'Yeast are people, too'. For details on applying for
an assisted place, student rate, Raymond Blanc chef's grant, or The
Sophie Coe Prize for Food History, visit: http://www.oxfordsymposium.org.uk/
The professionals
Real Bread and Real Ale
There
might be the opportunity for a Real Bread baker to take a food stand
(e.g sandwiches, pies etc. as well as Real loaves) at the Great British Beer Festivalat Earl's Court from 3rd-7th August. The festival will see around
65,000 people who care about their ale, many of whom may well care
about their bread, too. If you are interested in finding our more,
please contact Chris Young ASAP.
Job vacancy: artisan baker
The award winning Old Farmhouse Bakeryin Oxfordshire seeks experienced full time artisan baker for five
consecutive nights a week. No management involved but hands on skills
and oven work essential as are good time keeping and organisation. Very
good salary. Please send your CV along with a photo and references if
available to oldfarmhousebakery@bythemeadowfarm.co.uk
Mobile bread oven wanted
London Community Resource Network has invited us to do some Real Bread making in their learning space at Camden Green Fair on
6th June. Thing is, we don't know of anyone with a mobile bread oven.
If you have one that you'd be willing to lend to us please get in touch
with Chris Young. Turning up with just some leaflets and a banner seems
a bit dull in comparison.
Special offers
Would you like to offer a discount or deal to paid-up Real Bread campaign members, either professionals or passionate punters?
Real Bread for the Olympics
The 2012 Olympic Village alone will use something like 25,000 loaves - can you help to ensure that London 2012 keeps it Real?
Baking Industry Exhibition 21st-24th March
If
anyone's going to BIE at the NEC, please don't forget to spread the
word about the campaign. If you want to take some campaign leaflets
along, please let Chris Young know ASAP. Oh, and please drop by the
stand of campaign member Doves Farm to say hi.
BBC One seeks baker family to go back in time
Are
you a professional baker who is fascinated by the history of your
trade? Imagine taking your work and your family back to the glory days
of the High Street. Could you show modern customers what good old
fashioned service really means? Would you like to explore the
techniques, technology and opening hours of the past? Have a family
with children aged between 8-18 years old?
If you answer to all
of the above is 'yes' and you are able to relocate your family to a
picturesque High Street in a modern day market town in the South West
for for the duration of the filming (9-10 weeks) this summer, the
producers would like to hear from you. For more details of this
exciting opportunity, please contact Michael Fraser on 020 7241 9349,
or email michael.fraser@walltowall.co.uk
Sippets
Flour fortification: Think all that's in a bag of flour is just flour?
Additives: some information on what else could go into a factory loaf
See John Letts of the Oxford Bread Group in a recent edition of BBC2's Mastercrafts
Brockwell Bake Association is launched
Think that you might be Britain's best amateur baker? then BBC2's The Great British Bake Off wants to hear from you
Flour Power City Bakery will be featured in a BBC2 schools programme i-D&T on Tuesday 16th March at 11.30am
More events
More companions
End Crust
'Thousands
in civic life will, for years, and perhaps as long as they live, eat
the most miserable trash that can be imagined, in the form of bread,
and never seem to think that they can possibly have anything better,
nor even that it is an evil to eat such stuff as they do.'
Sylvester Graham, Treatise on bread, and bread making, Light & Stearns, Boston 1837.
Things have really gathered momentum in the past few weeks. We now
have so many members that posting out the first print edition of True
Loaf out took the best part of a day; we have taken on a volunteer (hi,
Anna) to knock the pilot scheme for Lessons in Loaf into shape; and I
spent two night shifts at Fifteen London for a glimpse at the bread
making skills that form part of their apprenticeship scheme.
But enough about us in the office how are you and what are you up to?
Happy baking
Chris
.
True Loaf
As mentioned
above, this quarter's edition of True Loaf magazine is out now, packed
with Real Bread news, interviews and features. If you're a member, you
should have received your copy, so please let us know what you think.
If you've yet to join, this full colour mag is the perfect excuse to do
so.
https://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/membership/
Joining the dots
The
Real Bread Campaign is all about helping people around the country to
share ideas and information with each other. One tool we are using to
help people make connections is The Real Baker-e, the virtual meeting place for campaign members. If you're a member but not yet joined the conversation, please do.
Lessons in Loaf
Hello,
professional Real Bread bakers. Further to the email we sent last week,
if any more of you have experience of bread making in a primary schools
and are happy for Chris and Anna to pick your brains, please get in
touch. Likewise if you are interested in chatting about the possibility
of taking part in the pilot scheme.
Real Bread Blog
Posts so
far this month are from campaign supporter, Nadia Bunce, casting a
wistful eye at bread across the Channel and campaign project officer
Chris reporting on his mini-apprenticeship at Fifteen London. https://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/blog/
The Oxford Bread Group
Our friends at the Oxford Bread Grouphave just been awarded a grant for £25,805 from the Southern
Oxfordshire Leader programme. This will enable the group to purchase
agricultural equipment to allow them to increase the range of heritage
wheat varieties that they can grow, not only for bread flour but also
for long-stem thatching straw.
Anyone in/around Oxford
interested in receiving bread or flour through the group, in
volunteering opportunities, or further information, can contact Sally
Lane on (01865) 243777, or at order[at]oxfordlocalbread.org
www.oxfordlocalbread.org
Kids - bake your lawn!
Championing the rise of Real Bread in south London, The Brockwell Bakeis now inviting local community groups on a journey from seed to
sandwich. This March, Andy Forbes and co will be providing spring
wheat for sowing, then offer ongoing support from planting, through to
harvesting, milling and baking Real Bread.
If you are involved
in a south London school or other community group garden project and
are interested in baking your lawn, please email Andy:
atty[at]area3.net
Baker my neighbour
Campaign
member Gaye Whitwam is hoping to start a scheme in which families bake
at home to make Real Bread accessible to a neighbour or two. If anyone
has advice that Gaye might find useful or lives around Wallington in
Surrey (between Croydon and Sutton) or is interested in helping her to
develop this, please email Gaye: stickymitts[at]blueyonder.co.uk
Calling St Helens
We've
been contacted by a food co-op group in St Helens, dying to help get
Real Bread into their local community. Trouble is, no baker we've
contacted in the Liverpool area has accepted our invitation to add
loaves that meet our definition the Real Bread Finder. If you are
interested in an order of around 100 loaves of Real Bread a week,
please get in touch with us.
I'm dying to help what can I do?
The
Real Bread Campaign isn't just a couple of people in a London office
and a few celeb bakers we are a collective of hundreds of individuals
and organisations nationwide, all doing our bit for the cause.
So, don't be shy - how about letting everyone else know what you are up to?
Then join the conversation at The Real Baker-e, in our Facebook group, on Twitter or drop us a line in the office.
And as always, we're keen to receive your news stories, pictures and
articles for True Loaf, Breadcrumbs and the Real Bread blog.
End Crust
The people of Britain need to be reminded that bread is not just a way to keep your fingers dry when eating a sandwich.
Andrew Wheeler, Eat Britain: 101 Great British Tastes
2010: aren't we all meant to be wearing silver jumpsuits and driving hover cars by now?
Though it might seem an age ago already, I hope that you had a great Christmas and New Year.
Since
last month hundreds more people who share our Real Bread values have
signed up to show their support for the campaign and to receive
Breadcrumbs.
Even better
is that so many of you have gone one step further and become a paid-up,
card-carrying Real Bread Campaign member. Thank you.
Happy baking
Chris Young
Project Officer
The Real Bread Campaign
True Loaf
Issue two of
True Loaf, the exclusive magazine for Real Bread Campaign members,
features our interview with Caroline Conran. Read her memories of her
involvement in the 1980 Campaign for Real Bread and just what she
thought of Elizabeth David's home baking.
True Loaf is with
our designers and will be winging its way to campaign members later
this month. If you haven't joined up yet, you can do so at our membership page
Bakers Support
We've set up a Real Bread bakers support section
on our website on which we will collect together information and advice
for Real Bread bakers (and those thinking about becoming one) from our
members, supporters and other experts. Not a lot on there right now
but it will grow; If you have anything that you'd like to share with
others to help support your flour-dusted fellows, please get in touch.
Community Supported Baking
November's
Rise of Real Bread conference confirmed that there is growing interest
in the idea of Community Supported Baking (CSB). We'll be working with
the conference's organisers, LandShare CIC and others on Rise Up, a CSB
tool kit. In the meantime, we've set up a CSB information page
Special Offers
The latest addition to offers for Real Bread Campaign members comes in the shape of a 20% discount on various courses at Manna From Devon in Kingswear.
blog
Mulberry founder and now Sharpham Park head honcho, campaign working party member Roger Saul, tells us about his passion for spelt: https://www.sustainweb.org/realbread/blog/
Sippets
and no, that's not a typo
Real Bread Radio
In
case you missed the Real Bread edition of Radio 4's Food Programme,
featuring interviews from The Rise of Real Bread with several campaign
members you can listen to it at: http://bit.ly/7oJjAQ
Dragons' Den
Any Real Bread bakers fancy entering BBC2's Dragons Den? They are taking applications now http://bit.ly/1rzTXA
The Great British Bake Off
Staying
with BBC2, the channel is looking for amateur bakers across the country
to take part in The Great British Bake Off. If you are interested,
please email baking@loveproductions.co.uk
Bakery CO2 reduction case study
Page 52 of the government's 2030 food strategy gives a Carbon Trust case study of the Cavan Bakery reducing its energy consumption and CO2 output
GM crops talk
On
21st January (18:00 20:30), the British Library is holding a Talk
Science event entitled: 'GM crops and food security: curing the
world's growing pains?' For details and tickets, visit http://www.bl.uk/science
Wanted: local food collaboration case studies
Local
food organisation f3 is seeking case studies of food micro hubs, modest
scale collaborations between producers. For example six neighbouring
producers of different commodities working jointly and informally on
marketing and distribution. They are particularly interested in those
with any experience of developing software to track delivery needs and
offers to help producers share van space. For more information and
contact details, visit http://www.sustainablesupplychains.org.uk/
There is a tradition that whoever eats the last piece of bread must kiss the baker
(I picked up this 'fact' from my friend Google, so it might or might not be true
.)
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