Kneading Conference West
Here’s an event for all of us Road Trips Foodies — it’s billed as “inspiration and education for bakers, grain growers, millers, scientists, wood-fired oven enthusiasts, food entrepreneurs, and anyone who loves hand-crafted breads”.
The Kneading Conference West is set for September 12 through 14, 2013, at 16650 State Route 536, Mount Vernon, Washington (map).
The three days are filled with workshops, panel discussions and demonstrations. In addition to hands-on baking workshops for the home and professional baker, there are workshops on planting a backyard grain garden, brewing beer, making bagels in a wood-fired oven, building a wood-fired oven and a demo of flavors in a variety of wheats and other grains.
Keynote speakers are Thor Oechsner, the grandson of a German baker who grows a variety of grains on 600 acres of land in the Finger Lakes region of New York and co-owner of Farmer Ground Flour, and Darra Goldstein, the founding editor of Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture and the author of four cookbooks.
Registration information is online.
(Photo by Cara Kennedy courtesy of Kneading Conference West)
