52 Loaves by William Alexander

The story of one man’s obsession to bake the perfect loaf of bread.  Our hero ate a bit of bread at a fancy New York restaurant and was transported by it.  He asked what it was called, and the waiter told him it was Peasant Bread.  He then decided to bake his own Peasant Bread.  The logical thing, call up the restaurant and ask if you can have their recipe, or Google peasant bread and see what kinds of recipes pop up, take a back seat to irrational exuberance. Over the course of 52 weeks, William Alexander decided to bake…

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The Beatles The Candle Burns

I’ve been a Beatles fan since I first discovered the Fab Four in High School-about ten years after the band broke up. I bought reissues of all their albums and once in a while in a thrift store I would find an album I had never seen before. These unknown albums would often have the usual tracks of an LP I was familiar with, but with new cover art. Once in a while they had songs I had never heard of either. These, of course, were bootleg albums-records cranked out by companies that didn’t have the rights to release them…

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