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 …
November 2015
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 …