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Brick Oven Bakers Conference 2000

Reggie Dwork <reggie@jeff-and-reggie.com>
Sat, 28 Oct 2000 08:47:03 -0700
v100.n068.14
I received this and thought that some of you might be interested in 
attending the Sunday session.

Brick Oven Bakers Conference 2000

The date is set for the Second Brick Oven and Bakers Conference for 
November 17th-19th 2000. (The first brick oven and bakers conference was 
held at the home of Jules and Helen Rabin on the 20th July 1983). This 
conference will attempt to expand the agenda that the title suggests to 
include discussion of milling and even growing grains, and the all 
important relationships necessary to keep a business viable,  all in the 
context of being hands on, small scale and local.

This conference will be held at the Headlands Center for the Arts near 
Sausalito California where they have great facilities not only for a small 
conference but  also have a very large kitchen and dining area that 
features a wood fired oven that has a hearth of 4'x6'. This oven will be in 
constant use during the conference both for educational purposes and to 
bake much of the delicious food that will be served each day.

One of the requirements for having the conference at the Arts Center is 
that it be open to the public on the last day, Sunday. Friday the 
conference will be a very informal day of arriving, gathering together, 
introductions, firing up the oven with lunch available for early birds and 
a dinner together for everyone at 8pm. Saturday, 9am to 9pm  will be 
divided into discussion groups; ovens, baking, milling , grains and 
growing, other.  Prominent attendees will include Roger Jansen of Jansen 
Stone Mills who will demonstrate dressing a stone mill, Tim Deckker of 
Bennett Valley Bakery who recently won 11 golds at the Sonoma State Fair 
and who will talk on firing and oven efficiency, A continental breakfast, 
la inch and an evening dinner will be served.

Sunday, leaders will be selected to give more formal presentations to both 
conference attendees and the public on the major topics of discussion from 
the previous day.  Again a continental breakfast and lunch will be 
available. The program must end at 4pm Sunday. Concurrently to these 
activities will be a continuous program of bread and other baking in the 
brick oven starting from basic grains and milling in some cases. To begin 
the program will be Keith Giusto baking on Friday evening using his newly 
developed stone ground organic flours that he will discuss on the following 
days.  Other bakers will include Dave Miller using his ultra fresh 
Biodynamic whole grain flours, Dan Wing co author of "The Bread Builders" 
and others in both the Whole Grain and Artisan tradition.

There will be a fee for the conference to help cover the costs of providing 
great food throughout, other necessary expenses and support for those in 
need of assistance. This fee will be $100 with a sliding scale for 
students/apprentices or the needy. Couples pay as one. Facilities are 
limited to 60 participants.

Accommodations are tight at this time of year but there is a youth hostel 
in San Francisco at Fort Mason, (and one next door to the Headlands Art 
Center but is supposedly booked out for this weekend), and camping 
possibilities at most of the parks in the area and to the north. Bed and 
Breakfast inns are in profusion in Marin especially in  West Marin. For a 
map to the Headlands Center for the Arts go to 
http://www.headlands.org/Directions/