On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 09:21:08 -0400, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 8/20/2012 6:13 PM, l, not -l wrote:
>> Artisan bread is another of those terms that has become so devalued as to be
>> meaningless. Just as most who use the word awesome have no clue about what
>> is truly awesome, most who talk about artisan bread have never seen or
>> tasted it.
>>
>(snippage)
>
>Some folks talk about it as if it was available on every corner. Just
>like there is a farmers market or an Asian market everyone can go to.
>This isn't always the case. The only bread I see which claims to be
>"artisan" comes from the supermarket bakery department. It's bread and
>they throw some seeds in there and mark up the price.
>
>I haven't seen anything truly awesome since I saw the sun glittering off
>the Arctic ice cap
>
>Jill

For those into bread artisan bread is about the easiest baked goods
one can bake at home, no more difficult than boxed cake... all artisan
means is that the bread was hand shaped... beautiful artisan bread can
be made from pizza dough... in fact hand thrown pizza IS artisan
bread.