guide to bread

Schedule

Fri Jun 18 2021 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

Location

Westminster United Methodist Church | Houston, TX

Bread lovers unite! Come join us for an IN-PERSON bread masterclass and tasting featuring a local French Baker and tasty treats!
During the pandemic shutdown, there were unprecedented shortages of yeast and bread flour as people rediscovered bread baking. (Tell the truth, did you forget a sourdough starter sometime in 2020?) But for most of human history, baking your daily bread wasn't a pandemic hobby. It was a necessity of daily life (that just also happened to be delicious), and even a reminder of the sacred. Bread is pervasive throughout the Jewish and Christian scriptures, even to the point of being central to Christianity's most sacred ritual--Communion.
So why bread? What is it about mixing, kneading, and baking that makes it so important? What does it have to teach us about faith? What does it have to teach us about life?
Gastrochurch is back, and ready to tackle those questions. For this IN-PERSON masterclass, we are thrilled to welcome Caroline a local French Baker (read more about Caroline below) to help us understand bread. Caroline will bring several breads, a few tasty treats to accompany each one, talk about how to make them, and answer any questions you might have. Meredith will give a few reflections and throw out a couple of conversation questions. And you? You'll get to taste bread, some light bites, drink your favorite beverage, and share some intentional conversation about spiritual things over really good food.
So join us for a guide to bread and a little taste of France! Think of it like a mini-gastrochurch. We'll bring the bread, butter and fixins, you bring your favorite beer or wine, and we'll all meet up at the table again.
Featured Partner:
- Caroline relocated from Paris to Houston in 2010 and after baking bread in her kitchen everyday for 10 years decided to enroll in Maison Kayser Academy to get her French baker certification.
Things to Buy:
- $20 Ticket for access to our masterclass experience with a word from Rev. Meredith Mills, an interview with Donna and Debbie, instructions on how to build your own garden in the perfect planter box for a house with a yard or an apartment with a patio.
Things to Donate:
- Donate a class and/or add on as a gift to a friend or to bless a stranger in our community in need of a random act of kindness. Simply specify in your registration who you're buying for by including their email or filling in Random Act of Kindness
- Donate a meal for some of our friends fighting food insecurity and homelessness in the Galveston area.
- Special Offering to Morsel & Crumbs our favorite local catering company who cooks all of the meals we donate to our friends in Galveston
- Special Offering to Gastrochurch to help us continue to create community in creative ways during the pandemic.
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"About me, a French woman living and baking breads in Texas.
My name is Caroline. When we moved from Paris to Houston in 2010 with my family, I realize that bread was a significant part of my life: bakeries are everywhere in France like Starbucks in the US. You can find a bakery at almost every corner of the streets: I was buying baguette for breakfast, ham and cheese sandwich for lunch, croissants for snacks and baguette (again) for dinner.
In 2020, after baking breads every day in my kitchen for 10 years, I decided to embrace my passion and enrolled in Maison Kayser Academy to get my French baker certification. At the same time, I decided to bake bread with leaven: “levain” in French. I discovered a whole new world with a specific know-how that I fell in love with.
I love to bake bread as much as I love to eat it. Breads means a lot and the main reason I love it is because it is alive. When you bake bread, you don’t just follow a recipe: you choose your ingredients, you feed your leaven, you feel the dough, you adjust every step of the process with the weather and you always enjoy that magical moment when it comes out of the oven: it is always an emotion.
On most days, you will find me on my kitchen baking breads for my community and working on my certification. If not, try to meet me at a soccer field watching my kids practicing or playing a game while I am reading a book. Bread is the clock that balance my day, feeding my leaven on the early morning, kneading the dough on the afternoon and watching the magic happening in the oven at night.
Caroline. "

Where is it happening?

Westminster United Methodist Church, 5801 San Felipe St, Houston, TX 77057, United States

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Tickets

USD 20 to USD 150

Host or Publisher Gastrochurch

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