Baking Artisan Bread with Natural Starters
Mark Friend
Oct 2018 · Andrews McMeel Publishing
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The expert baker behind Kansas City’s Farm to Market Bread Co. shares his natural starter secrets in this complete guide to baking artisanal bread.
There’s nothing quite like the pure, simple pleasure of freshly baked bread. And few bakers know bread like Mark Friend, founder of Kansas City’s Farm to Market Bread Company. For more than twenty-five years, Kansas Citians have enjoyed Mark’s fresh-baked creations. Now he teaches you how to bake their own artisanal sourdough, levain, rye, and biga at home.
The key to achieving the full-bodied flavor of great bread is using a healthy, naturally fermented starter. Using four core recipes, Mark guides you from pre-fermented starter to warm, aromatic finish. He then offers variations to each recipe, allowing you to expand your baking repertoire.
There’s nothing quite like the pure, simple pleasure of freshly baked bread. And few bakers know bread like Mark Friend, founder of Kansas City’s Farm to Market Bread Company. For more than twenty-five years, Kansas Citians have enjoyed Mark’s fresh-baked creations. Now he teaches you how to bake their own artisanal sourdough, levain, rye, and biga at home.
The key to achieving the full-bodied flavor of great bread is using a healthy, naturally fermented starter. Using four core recipes, Mark guides you from pre-fermented starter to warm, aromatic finish. He then offers variations to each recipe, allowing you to expand your baking repertoire.
About the author
Mark Friend operates Farm to Market Bread Company which has close to $2 million dollars in annual sales. They distribute bread daily to 38 grocery stores and 175 restaurants, caterers, and hotels in the greater Kansas City metro area, Lawrence, Topeka, and Wichita. Their bread is also available through 3 home delivery services.Instagram: 1.3k followersFacebook: 3.1k likesTwitter: 3.7k followersMark Friend's education includes: Monterey Baking Company in California under master baker Claudio Cantore, with emphasis on sourdoughAmerican Institute of Baking, Manhattan, Kansas centering on fermentation theory and practice and maintenance of product quality. Culinary Institute of America, Bread Bakers' Guild studying French bread under Professor Raymond Cavel, Paris, France San Francisco Baking Institute for advanced work in artisan bread.Friend is responsible for the in-store baking concept using Liopis wood burning hearth ovens. The first premiered in the Deer Creek Hen House where the store experienced an increase in sales by 31% and the project received the Modern Baking Leadership Award for Commitment to Quality. Other stores followed. Mark has also been involved in the Wheat Quality Council in Manhattan, Kansas, in an effort for the Council to consider the special wheat and flour needs of artisan bakers.He has strong connections within the bread-baking community including the Bread Bakers’ Guild of America, the International Baking Industry Exposition, Kansas City area stores and restaurants, farmers’ markets, and media outlets including NPR, Bread Magazine, Pastry and Arts, Food and Wine, Feast, etc.farmtomarketbread.com
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