While the idea of a freshly baked loaf of bread — or really anything that emerges from a burning oven — isn’t overtly appealing in the middle of a heat wave, Finnish ruis bread provides an unlikely ...

Among the some 2,000 cookbooks that I donated to the University of Minnesota Library before we moved was a Finnish book, “Pula Ajan Ruoka” which translates to “Food for Hard Times.” It has struck me ...

If there is any positive I can think of that’s come out of the last couple years, it is that people are more interested in bread baking. My granddaughter has been making sourdough bread because she ...

*Reprinted with permission from the University of Minnesota Press from Homemade: Finnish Rye, Feed Sack Fashion, and Other Simple Ingredients from My Life in Food by ...

HELSINKI, Finland - Visiting Helsinki for the fifth time in a dozen years, I happily rediscover the rye breads with polysyllabic names I can't pronounce, but which over the years I've come to love. As ...