February Bake Club: BREAD TOAST CRUMBS by Alexandra Stafford

Join us for the Februrary 2025 meeting of the BOLD FORK BAKE CLUB!

Here’s how it works: everyone will prepare a dish from BREAD TOAST CRUMBS (a couple of days after you sign up, you’ll have access to a spreadsheet where attendees list their chosen dishes.)

Then we’ll gather in the shop and share a feast! We’ll talk through the process of procuring ingredients, challenges and unexpected pleasures of the cooking process and many other things related to BREAD TOAST CRUMBS.

If you purchase a copy of the book from us with your ticket, you can pick it up in our store, or have it shipped for an additional cost.
Please note: because of the high demand of this event, we will not be able to process refunds. A couple of days after you sign up for this event, you’ll have access to a spreadsheet where attendees list their chosen dishes.
ABOUT THE COOKBOOK
With praise from Dorie Greenspan, Jim Lahey, and David Lebovitz, the definitive bread-baking book for a new generation. But this book isn’t just about baking bread-- it’s about what to do with the slices and heels and nubs from those many loaves you’ll bake.
Alexandra Stafford grew up eating her mother’s peasant bread at nearly every meal—the recipe for which was a closely-guarded family secret. When her blog, Alexandra’s Kitchen, began to grow in popularity, readers started asking how to make the bread they’d heard so much about; the bread they had seen peeking into photos. Finally, Alexandra’s mother relented, and the recipe went up on the internet. It has since inspired many who had deemed bread-baking an impossibility to give it a try, and their results have exceeded expectations. The secret is in its simplicity: the no-knead dough comes together in fewer than five minutes, rises in an hour, and after a second short rise, bakes in buttered bowls.
After you master the famous peasant bread, you’ll work your way through its many variations, both in flavor (Cornmeal, Jalapeno, and Jack; Three Seed) and form (Cranberry Walnut Dinner Rolls; Cinnamon Sugar Monkey Bread). You’ll enjoy bread’s usual utilities with Food Cart Grilled Cheese and the Summer Tartine with Burrata and Avocado, but then you’ll discover its true versatility when you use it to sop up Mussels with Shallot and White Wine or juicy Roast Chicken Legs. Finally, you’ll find ways to savor every last bite, from Panzanella Salad Three Ways to Roasted Tomato Soup to No-Bake Chocolate-Coconut Cookies.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Alexandra Stafford graduated from Yale and moved to Philadelphia, where she attended cooking school and worked in professional kitchens. After two years at the acclaimed restaurant Fork, she left to start her blog, Alexandra's Kitchen, which won a Saveur Blog Award for Most Inspired Weeknight Dinners. Her first cookbook, Bread Toast Crumbs, was nominated for the IACP Julia Child First Book Award. She lives in upstate New York with her husband and four children.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Bold Fork Books, 3064 Mount Pleasant Street Northwest, Washington, United States