Contents

Prologue

I. Vigils

THE PREVIOUS OCTOBER. Rarin’ to Go

II. Lauds

WEEK 1. Bake Like an Egyptian

WEEK 2. Naturally Pure and Wholesome

WEEK 3. The Winter Wheat of Our Discontent

WEEK 4. The Purloined Letter

WEEK 5. To Die For

WEEK 6. Steamed

WEEK 7. Old Believer

WEEK 8. “The Rest of the World Will Be Dead”

WEEK 9. Gute Recipes

WEEK 10. Born to Run

III. Terce

WEEK 11. Goddisgoode

WEEK 12. Choreography

WEEK 13. Note to Self

WEEK 14. Metric Madness

WEEK 15. We Make Biomass

WEEK 16. A Chill in the Air

WEEK 17. The Short, Unhappy Life of an Assistant Baker

WEEK 18. Waffling

WEEK 19. Playing the Percentages

WEEK 20. Feed It or It Dies

WEEK 21. With Friendships Like This . . .

WEEK 22. Kneadin’ in Skowhegan

WEEK 23. Powerless

IV. Sext

WEEK 24. White-Bread Diet

WEEK 25. Sweeney Todd

WEEK 26. Pane Toscano

WEEK 27. The Sound of One Hand Kneading

WEEK 28. A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

WEEK 29. Kneadless to Say

WEEK 30. Bread Shrink

WEEK 31. State Fair

V. None

WEEK 32. Don’t Fear the Reaper

WEEK 33. Miller’s Crossing

WEEK 34. Blown Away (by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August)

WEEK 35. Lecture to Young Men on Chastity

WEEK 36. Terror Firma

WEEK 37. Indian Giver

WEEK 38. Terror Firma Redux

WEEK 39. A Lot of ‘Splainin’ to Do

WEEK 40. Feeling Like Manure

WEEK 41. “Nous Acceptons Votre Proposition”

VI. Vespers

WEEK 42. God Bless the TSA

WEEK 43. Puttin’ On the Ritz

WEEK 44. The Count of Asilah

WEEK 45. The Trials of Job: Travel Edition

WEEK 46. A Time to Keep Silence

VII. Compline

WEEK 47. What Would Bruno Do?

WEEK 48. Half-Baked

WEEK 49. A Levain of My Own

WEEK 50. Cracked

WEEK 51. Let Them Eat . . . Brioche?

WEEK 52. The Perfect Future in the Present

Recipes

A Note about the Recipes

Building a Levain

Peasant Bread (Pain de Campagne)

Pain au Levain Miche

Baguette à l’Ancienne

Pain de l’Abbaye Saint-Wandrille

A Baker’s Bookshelf

Acknowledgments

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