On Thu, 9 Jul 2009 23:05:12 -0600, graham wrote:

> "Alan Zelt" > wrote in message
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>> "Jean B." > wrote in message
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>>> Neat post! Thanks! (Of course, I perked up even more for the
>>> cookbooks!)
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>>> Jean B.
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>> Something that I should pass on for all those lovers of the no knead
>> bread, baked in a cast iron pot, made famous a couple of years ago by the
>> Times.
>>
>> In many of the Basque cookbooks, along with the on line Basque
>> repositories, there are many versions of the Basque sheepherders bread.
>> Out tending to their flocks of sheep out in the wild remote parts of
>> California, Oregon, Nevada and Idaho, the sheepherders made bread the very
>> same way. Guess there really is nothing new. It all goes around.

> Alton Brown on Good Eats a couple of weeks ago made bread in probably their
> way too. He sat the cast-iron pot on burning bbq brickettes and put more on
> the lid.
> Graham

this is what my brain always says when i read 'dutch oven.' can't take the
boy scout out of the boy, i suppose.

your pal,
blake