I ran across this quote today and thought it might strike a nerve
with all you bread bakers.
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[Breadbaking is] one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a
dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with one of
the world's sweetest smells... there is no chiropractic treatment, no
Yoga exercise, no hour of meditation in a music-throbbing chapel,
that will leave you emptier of bad thoughts than this homely ceremony
of making bread.
~M.F.K. Fisher, The Art of Eating
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Bob the Tarheel Baker