Winter 2013 / hiver 2013

by Marc on January 20, 2013

This season is always fun! Folks really get into bread and cooking during the cold months.

Come and take a class with me at Mezza Luna.

Venez prendre un cours avec moi chez Mezza Luna.

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by Marc on September 17, 2012

Right on!! Fall classes coming up at Mezza Luna.
Bread 101 on October 14 and Pains Spéciaux on November 5.
It’s always a blast doing classes at Mezza Luna. Elena Faita is a gracious and helpful hostess, and the kitchen set-up is perfect. I’ll be doing three bread recipes in each class and there will be plenty of tasty sides to eat along with the breads.

I hope to see you there!

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March 29, 2012

Hey there, I thought I would share some thoughts…. Just read Mission Street Food book and got totally inspired and motivated! So happy to be baking and cooking, thrilled about local food and products, considering doing something to give back to the community and neighbourhood I love so much. Getting excited again about Red Fife [...]

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What’s up for the fall?!

November 7, 2011

Okay, careful what you wish for there Marky!… OysterFest 2011 was so much fun! The Olive+Gourmando team rocked it really hard! We served crazy delicious chicken and mushroom mini-burgers on our unique grilled bread. I had the honour of manning the grill for the 2 1/2 hours it took to sell out of everything we [...]

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Summer in the city

August 17, 2011

I haven’t been very busy with any bread classes or workshops … it looks like folks don’t want to learn to bake bread at home in the hot summer months. But that hasn’t stopped me from havin’ fun! I did some barbecue and fire pit pizza tests at a friend’s cottage and I made beer [...]

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Cool bakers everywhere!!

June 2, 2011

Montréal, NYC, Vancouver Island, Aix en Provence… Byron Fry is The Travelling Baker. He contacted me through Facebook and we’ve become fast friends. He’s doing some inspiring and beautiful work out in Victoria. His photos are gorgeous! Just seeing them gets me all fired up about being a baker and I just want to run [...]

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Plenty to keep me busy!…

April 25, 2011

All right, hows about a little update… it’s been a little too long since my last post. Wow! What a couple of months it’s been! First off, the big news… I’ve been named sous chef at Olive+Gourmando. How exciting! I guess I’ll be sticking around after all… just kidding! I love that place! I get [...]

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Upcoming…

February 10, 2011

The next couple of months look like lots of fun… École Mezza Luna: March 9: Bread 101 and April 10: The Baker’s Brunch I’ll be making special breads for a Sara Jenkins event hosted by chef Michele Forgione on April 21. Three workshops at Les Touilleurs on April 26, 27 and May 25, in the [...]

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Wild vs commercial yeast

January 24, 2011

So you’re gonna make bread—What will you use to make it rise? Wild yeast or commercially produced dried yeast? Many bakers have a clear preference and feel quite strongly about it. The bread baking world, like cooking in general, is rife with many beliefs, traditions, habits, and the line dividing them all is quite thin. [...]

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Quincaillerie Dante / Mezza Luna

January 24, 2011

I’ll be teaching a bread class on Feb 8 and March 9 at Mezza Luna, Elena Faita’s cooking school. What an honour! All the info can be found here. I’m really looking forward to it because last time I really had a blast with the students and especially with Elena. What a star! Je serai [...]

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