November 2015

LA Times Gift Guide

Grist & Toll flours, grains and baking supplies

In a small warehouse space in Pasadena, baker Nan Kohler and her business partner Marti Noxon have built an urban flour mill where they mill whole grains into flour and sell that …

LA Times Pumpkin Pie

Why you should get up before the sun on Thanksgiving to bake a great pumpkin pie

If you want to bake a really good pie, get up early. I mean insomniac early, before light and birds and traffic, when the …

Thanksgiving Pie

G&T Recipe: Thanksgiving Swirl Pie

Yield = two 9-inch pies

I just couldn’t decide which pie to feature for Thanksgiving this year. The cheese pie recipe below was the very first pie I learned how to make, so it has …

Local vs. Industrial: Bread Expectations

I have been thinking a lot lately about what a loaf of bread should cost. Since opening Grist & Toll, I’ve been lucky enough to meet many budding artisan bread bakers. They all express the same passion: “I want to …

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