Baking is Poetry 401 Comments
Tags: BAKING, baking ingredients, Baking Photographs, Baking Poetry, Baking thoughts, digital photography techniques, food poetry, On Life, yeastWhat is Baking mean to You? Here is a poem I just jotted down in an effort to get back to food blogging again. I want to hear from my readers --- is baking a smell, a sight or sound? A memory?
Baking
It is patience
It is understanding
the
ebb
and
flow
ebb
and
flow
Of ingredients
Of Environmental factors
Of Environmental factors
It is flirting
with formulations
to achieve
the ultimate
in taste combination -
Whether
that result achieved
is
simplistic
or
quite complicated.
Baking is
the warmth of a stack oven
Of the freshly
de-panned product.
Baking is
Of the freshly
de-panned product.
Baking is
the satisfaction
Of creation.
Of the tears
Of creation.
Of the tears
which
well in their eyes
when a taste, a smell
invokes
memories
of home,
of home,
Of a loved one
that
has
passed on.
passed on.
Baking is
the alcoholic fumes
the alcoholic fumes
permeating
from a container
that
housed
housed
your starter -
your poolish -
your biga -
or
your mix.
Baking is intoxication.
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I also experimented with a new add-on for GIMP called "Polar Inversion" - so I used it on the pic below. I think it encapsulates production quite well, you know, the total process seems full circle.
