Tuesday
Looking for an easy bread to bake for the holidays? Mary O’Rourke of The Waffle Window takes a traditional Irish Soda bread, shakes it up with a few seasonal winter ingredients to bring us her rendition: Holiday Soda Bread O’Rourke.

Wednesday
After reading a book on bread making during his commute to his desk job in New York City, a young Tim Healea set off on a journey to become one of the top bakers in America. In 2002 he and his teammates came in 2nd place at the World Cup of Baking – the prestigious Coupe du Monde de la Boulangerie. In 2008 Healea opened his own bakery, little t american baker where he uses old world bread-making techniques and combines them with new approaches to making a variety of bread products.

Thursday
How can the home baker come close to making the types of breads found in the top bakeries and restaurants? World champion baker Tim Healea offers a few pointers to help us approach that result.