When people talk about Les Misérables, it’s rare that they’re talking about Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel. Embarrassingly enough, until I was fifteen, I didn’t know that it was a book at all. I did, ...

Rye bread is a flavorful, dense type of bread; delicious as toast, the best for a Reuben, possibly the bread you need for a roast beef sandwich. Its nutty, earthy, and slightly sour flavor stands out ...

We all became obsessed with sourdough bread last spring, and it’s no wonder. What better way to channel anxiety than by pummeling bread dough and then slathering the delicious, fresh-baked results ...

This is the first of two bread recipes for winter baking. Neither are kneaded, but rather made with a stretch-and-fold motion right in the bowl. The second recipe, for focaccia, will run in this space ...

The new book 'Bien Cuit: The Art of Bread' by Zachary Golper includes a recipe for autumn maple rye bread. (Photo by Thomas Schauer, courtesy of Regan Arts) Baker Zachary Golper included this recipe ...

Think about rye and the things that probably come to mind are dense loaves of Old World bread, dark as earth and shot with caraway, maybe a nursery rhyme (blackbirds, pie) or more likely a tumbler of ...

A few weeks ago, we asked readers if they had a recipe for a Swedish rye bread from an old Austin bakery called Navarro’s, and though no one had any information about that particular recipe, Jim ...

Other than being an essential building block for the best Reuben sandwich, what do we really know about rye bread, and how does it differ from whole wheat? As it turns out, the difference is really ...