In 1990, I left my desk job to become a bread baker. Not that I was an expert, although I’d spent plenty of time in restaurant kitchens and traveled in Europe and San Francisco enough to know what I ...

Sixty-six-year-old master oven builder Alan Scott likes to claim that he was the first hippie in Southern Australia. The founder of Ovencrafters in Petaluma says his business is "guided by Gandhian ...

Sam Coates-Finke wore a baseball hat, a white apron and scuffed work-boots. With black-rimmed glasses he looked into a pot of boiling oil, waiting. "Is it ready?" a child asked. Along with a couple of ...

You can cook much more than bread and pizza in your backyard oven. Go beyond bread and pizza. Learn outdoor oven cooking strategies for firing your backyard oven and baking casseroles, vegetables, ...