“These were not French bakeries with a rigorous and obsessive method. There was a method, but it was quiet and relaxed, based on practice, experience, and a determined grappling with what I think of as a particularly Italian quest: How to achieve sublime beauty with the least amount of effort.”

“These were not French bakeries with a rigorous and obsessive method. There was a method, but it was quiet and relaxed, based on practice, experience, and a determined grappling with what I think of as a particularly Italian quest: How to achieve sublime beauty with the least amount of effort.”

— Jim Lahey