The baking blogosphere is packed with earth ovens, ancient and new, found all over the world. They are a reminder for those of us with electric ovens stuck in the wall that bread making is an ancient craft practised for centuries if not millenia.  I wish we had made these at school, maybe some enterprising teachers make them now.  I came across a guy the other day who had taken a small group of children out to the woods for a picnic. He was engrossed in firing a tiny home made oven made out of an old thermos flask on which he was cooking hot dogs for them, fuelled by twigs and leaf litter.  They were having such a good time!

I spend too much time dreaming and not enough time doing, but if you are a bit like me then Breadhunter‘s blog is a great place to spend some time and dream and maybe find inspiration. I think I’ll put myself down for a copy of that book when it comes out. …