I've always said that I'm a cook, not a baker, and my insistence on it is for several good reasons and one really bad one. I'm disorganized and impatient, and I overlook details. But the real problem is that I'm also intimidated, fearful of all the ways I might screw up a dough and not know it until I pull wonky bread out of the oven. I'm afraid of the unknown.


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