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Baking with flair: Julia Child vs. America's Test Kitchen

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Baking with flair: Julia Child vs. America's Test Kitchen

Do you love cooking shows?  Ever noticed a difference in the way cooking shows present what it is to cook?  Are they the Julia Child types that lightheartledly take hammers to meat and throw a little wine into the pot because "heck, it was already in my hand!"  Or do they precisely measure things and triple-check for accuracy like on "America's Test Kitchen?"

Read about my thoughts on this dramatic stylistic choice and how it impacts bread baking in my lastest blog, hosted here: 

http://sourdoughrye.blogspot.com/2011/10/liberties-and-flair.html