Well Bread Rises on the Pedigree of Passion by Nancy OsterAt 7:30 on a frosty winter morning I’m standing with Bob Oswaks of Well Bread in LA (Los Alamos) as he draws a freshly baked loaf of bread from the wood-burning oven at Full of Life Flatbread and measures the...
The aroma of freshly baked bread has been wafting through Santa Barbara County ever since artisan bakers fired up their ovens in Santa Barbara, Lompoc and Los Alamos. Read More…
Knead bread? One former Hollywood executive, Bob Oswaks, has been sojourning to Los Alamos for many years to get away from it all. Oswaks spent 11 years with Sony Pictures Television, most recently as president of worldwide marketing, launching everything from Seinfeld to Breaking Bad to Jeopardy. Read More...
Flour. Water. Salt.Since Neolithic times, no three ingredients have changed the landscape of culture more. Baking bread was integral to the rise of civilized states, enabling humans to leave nomadic lifestyles for socialized, agricultural societies. Then, with the Industrial Revolution, came industrial bread making, utilizing inferior grains, commercial yeast, and chemical...
