Comments on: A Night in the Bakery at St John https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/26/a-night-in-the-bakery-at-st-john/ In the midst of life I woke to find myself living in an old house beside Brick Lane in the East End of London Sun, 15 Jan 2017 14:59:20 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 By: Annette k https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/26/a-night-in-the-bakery-at-st-john/#comment-1130121 Sun, 15 Jan 2017 14:59:20 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7157#comment-1130121 My last name in German means bakery. Munich Germany 1800 Baker family carried the name but not the skill/guild training to USA. It was the Northern German Granny H. and Ohe that was the baker and cook. Bakers are hard to find in Central MS USA that know how to create a good bread, biscuit, Danish. We have to go up to the Mo. border into the German and Jewish sections of the State where the best bakeries are located-St. Louis MO USA. Some of the old German bakery families who had their bakeries and stores under family grocery stores are gone. We had a family bakery under a family’s old five and ten cent store a half block from an old school in South St. Louis. Best article is this above.

]]> By: Philip Morgan-Klein https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/26/a-night-in-the-bakery-at-st-john/#comment-94157 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 12:29:23 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7157#comment-94157 Bread making is an almost magical process. So this observation of a large scale bake with all the timings and stages and ins and outs of the oven seems almost miraculous. Yet it is such a human process with the bakers applying all their judgement from years of experience. The baker’s comment about the night passing so fast is evidence of the ‘flow’ he achieves where all of the calculations and judgements made happen almost without conscious thought in a place where time almost disappears. Perhaps this is a kind of magic: the magic of the focussed craftperson in full flow. A very precious experience to have or to witness. Many thanks gentle author for your stimulating witness here.

]]> By: Sonia https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/26/a-night-in-the-bakery-at-st-john/#comment-72694 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 14:21:53 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7157#comment-72694 Fascinating! I can smell the newly baked bread! Thank you, gentle author!

]]> By: el pingue https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/26/a-night-in-the-bakery-at-st-john/#comment-574 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:08:37 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7157#comment-574 ¡Guau!!!!!!

http://blogs.publico.es/elpingue/546/st-john-bread-and-wine-un-sandwich-y-un-yogur

]]> By: Anonymous https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/26/a-night-in-the-bakery-at-st-john/#comment-573 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:43:36 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7157#comment-573 I can smell it from here, nothing beats the smell of freshly baked bread.

]]> By: mlleparadis https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/26/a-night-in-the-bakery-at-st-john/#comment-572 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:27:27 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7157#comment-572 oh it’s a bee-you-ti-ful TING!

]]> By: Peter Cook https://spitalfieldslife.com/2010/04/26/a-night-in-the-bakery-at-st-john/#comment-571 Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:27:55 +0000 http://spitalfieldslife.com.s83288.gridserver.com/?p=7157#comment-571 A superb write up of a night in the bakery. Much like our own!

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