Try such creations as the succulent Benjamin (named after celebrity chef Benjamin Darnaud of Wanderlust restaurant fame) which combines aubergine dip with fig, basil and Fourme d'Ambert blue cheese on a grain bread flavoured with curry powder, or the sweet Gontran – named after baker Gontran Cherrier – which incorporates bananas with hazelnut and praline spread and lime juice on brioche bread.
The perfect pumpkin and green olive bread This is one of my favourite olive breads flavoured with sweet pumpkin and aromatic oregano.
Camel's milk, several varieties of dates, humus and tabouleh, salads, cauldrons of bubbling Um Ali (an Egyptian bread pudding flavoured with rosewater and pistachios), and delicious Zataar croissants.
Abundant, although usually unnoticed, microorganisms provide ample evidence of their presence sometimes unfavourably, as when they cause decay of materials or spread diseases, and sometimes favourably, as when they ferment sugar to wine and beer, cause bread to rise, flavour cheeses, and produce valued products such as antibiotics and insulin.
As well as keeping the dough moist, the oil gives the bread its rich flavour, but I suspect the large quantity is also responsible for the slightly soft crust of the River Cafe loaf, so I'm going to reduce the amount slightly.
INT21: Well the spread is very, very infrequently because one of the things that I try to do is not have spread or butter or anything, if I'm having a sandwich I usually have something like perhaps some mustard or some chutney or something like that on my bread just to flavour it a little bit, together with the filling.
Instead of pleating her version of the Jewish bread challah, she flavours it with honey and shapes it into a round to symbolise the circle of life.
"If bread has better flavours and costs more, it is less likely to be thrown away".
