With more interest in home-baked bread than ever before. And that means a lot of people are making friends with yeast for the first time. I am a professor of hospitality management and a former chef, ...

Some bakers struggled with presentation, giving judges misshapen, funky-looking bakes. Others failed to cook their bread entirely. But the greatest difficulty proved to be activating yeast — a tricky ...

Archaeologists recently found remnants of an unbaked loaf of yeast bread from 6600 B.C. Thousands of years later, home cooks still bake bread using the techniques of our ancestors. But, thanks to the ...

Learn the secrets to making unbelievably soft and fluffy sugar-glazed donuts at home. This step-by-step recipe will show you ...