Isn’t it fantastic how bread, one of the oldest prepared foods in history and baked with only a few ingredients (usually flour, water, yeast, some salt), shows such a wide variety all over the world? In recent years we have seen many different breads being baked in the most beautiful bakeries and ovens.

So let’s say you ordered one of these stunning bread lames and are ready to score your first bread. You will need instructions, right? We believe Anna Gabur, who designed the Bread Journey Lame, can ‘take you by the hand’.

“Take a f*cking stand, weet je ik bedoel… ja, now is the time. Take a f*cking stand en je hoeft hem niet uit te leggen, hè! Je hoeft niet te winnen en je hoeft hem niet wetenschappelijk te onderbouwen. Maar take a f*cking stand”. Tot zover roeptoeter Isa, jurist en ruim 46.000 volgers.

For our Bread Project, we photographed and tasted delicious focaccia in Matera, Italy. When staying at our family house in France, I love to prepare this focaccia, an Italian flat bread made with yeast and olive oil and flavoured with herbs, out in the open in our garden.

‘Hallo mijn naam is Isa. Ik ben 34 jaar en heb een zoon van 2,5. Ik ben jurist. En ik geloof dat de Rona [Corona red. Mirjam] wordt gebruikt voor het uitrollen van een agenda die neerkomt op het installeren van een totalitair regime’, aldus Isa Kriens van De Kleine Activist.

On Saturday, It’s 'kicheri day' at our Duniya Education School in Varanasi, India. Almost 100 happy kids queue in front of the washing tub in the courtyard, to wash their hands and to grab a large metal thali plate from the basket, to get a big scoop of kicheri, dished out by cook Anju

We are happy to announce that we will be the sole real Wire Monkey Bread Lame reseller for the BENELUX. So if you want to score your dough and bake these real pieces of art, this is your chance!

This is an adjusted version of a recipe I noted down in Vietnam where they used sweetened condensed milk instead of coconut cream. I also added the 85% chocolate. You can even make a yellow version by adding some kurkuma! Or red with beetroot! Play around and enjoy.

Chapati is perhaps the most popular type of bread in India. Even very young girls bake them with the greatest ease on open fires or on a chulha and often laugh at my misshapen tryouts. It's not so easy to make a perfect, beautifully round chapati with the simplest of ingredients!