Hi all,

I have been looking over this site and I think I am in love. It's good to know there are others who take bread as seriously as I do (my family laughs at my "bread obsession"), but that is what comes from being raised by a Frenchman! Even though I love all the different styles of bread I have never baked anything other than regular sandwich loaves myself, so I am going to give it a try. I hear the corner bakery crying already. :-( I am looking forward to trying all the different recipes and actually producing some good loaves myself. Then I can EARN the nick-name "bread snob".

Shawn