Word: bread
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There are few things that can drag me from my bed at four in the morning, especially in the middle of a Nor’easter. As I trudged up Concord Avenue in the dark, pummeled by rain, only the thought of Hi-Rise’s bread, straight from the oven, kept me going. I had arranged to observe the pre-dawn bread-making, and through the plate-glass windows the bakery’s light glowed like a beacon—the only sign of life on a dreary morning...
...outpost on Brattle Street, in the yellow Blacksmith House, but the main shop, not more than a 15-minute walk from the Square and just a few minutes from the Quad, has been my little secret since my first year. Weekday treks to grab a loaf of crusty bread or a sandwich and weekends spent relaxing over brunch at the long communal table have been a routine part of my past few years. It’s my favorite place in Cambridge to grab a quick bite and my favorite bakery in the entire Boston metro area, but I have...
Rene Becker, the genius behind the operation, is a former food writer and restaurant critic for Boston Magazine, who began baking for the renowned Zingerman’s Deli to pay for his last two years of college. Bread became a full-blown passion. “It’s amazing what you can do with just four basic ingredients—flour, water, yeast and salt,” he says...
...breads are fabulous—crusty on the outside, with a crumb that manages to be both airy and chewy at the same time. Daily staples such as the sourdough Concord Loaf, whole wheat Huron Loaf, thin-crusted Semolina and New England Brown Bread, made with molasses and dried blueberries, are supplemented by rotating specialty breads such as Walnut Bread, Olive Bread and Challah...
Harvard folklore has it that the chandeliers Lowell House residents enjoy as they eat their daily bread were originally intended for Eliot House. The lost delivery man pulled up at Lowell House in 1930, so the story goes, and asked Lowell House Master Julian Lowell Coolidge whether he had arrived at Eliot House. Coolidge supposedly took one look at the chandeliers the man was delivering and promptly replied, “Yes, this is Eliot House...