Awesome essay on the history of Herrell’s by Gus Rancatore, owner of Toscanini’s about the beginnings of Herrell’s Ice Cream and the artisanal ice cream movement.
I never knew that Herrell’s started in Davis Square, nor that it predated and influenced Tosci’s and Ben and Jerry’s.
I just started The Bread Baker’s Apprentice and was excited to find that Peter Reinhart gave a TED Talk on bread back in July 2008.
I can’t recommend his books enough. Last year around this time I decided to pick up his book American Pie – (my review here) and have made the recipes from there twice a week every week since. I can’t wait to tinker around with bread recipes.
PS — If you’re in the Charlotte, NC area check out Pie Town, a pizza restaurant he helped set up and oversees. I’m lucky to have a fiancé who has family there and so we all went out last November. The pizza itself wasn’t that exciting because he’s taught us to make awesome pizza at home …so it was more of a validation that I was doing it right.
In other words the pizza at Pie Town is excellent and amongst the best I’ve ever had.
