When people talk about Les Misérables, it’s rare that they’re talking about Victor Hugo’s 1862 novel. Embarrassingly enough, until I was fifteen, I didn’t know that it was a book at all. I did, ...

Delicious Homemade Rye Bread doesn't get much simpler than this bakery style artisan bread. Caraway and rye flour gives the ...

The recipe for this delectable Icelandic staple comes to us in a timely manner: the seventh annual Taste of Iceland Festival returns to Seattle this Thursday, October 9 through Sunday, October 12. If ...

For many Americans, soft slices of white rye toast are vehicles for corned beef and pastrami, Swiss cheese and sauerkraut, and bacon, lettuce and tomato. But in the Scandinavian diet, rye takes on a ...

Q: I looked my Scandinavian Rye Bread recipe recently and was shocked to find it missing. I started making it in the early 80’s and expect that it might have run in the Tribune as early as the late 70 ...

This is the first of two bread recipes for winter baking. Neither are kneaded, but rather made with a stretch-and-fold motion right in the bowl. The second recipe, for focaccia, will run in this space ...

Think about rye and the things that probably come to mind are dense loaves of Old World bread, dark as earth and shot with caraway, maybe a nursery rhyme (blackbirds, pie) or more likely a tumbler of ...