Daily Archives: March 31, 2026

My mother did not call it Level 3. She did not call it anything at all. She simply did what she did, every year, from the evening before the first day of the feast through the end of the seventh … Continue reading →

There is a student I think of often when I sit down to write about Level 2 baking. She came to my intermediate course some years ago, a quietly capable woman from one of the interior Amphoe communities east of … Continue reading →

There is a particular kind of student who arrives in my first-year baking course every autumn with a confident expression and a notebook full of neat preparation, having baked quite a lot at home and therefore assuming that the transition … Continue reading →