Kneading Conference

Last week Antoine Guerlain and I took a trip to the Kneading Conference in Skowhegan, ME. Kneading brings together millers, grain growers, bakers, and oven builders- more or less the entire "food chain" related to artisan bread baking. In this pic I am sitting on top of a mobile oven I built and brought along. Richard Miscovitch used this oven for baking during his Production Baking workshop. It was great to see the new oven in action and feel the fun factor from pulling beautiful loaves of bread from an oven that can be pulled by a truck and taken anywhere you want to go.