We all became obsessed with sourdough bread last spring, and it’s no wonder. What better way to channel anxiety than by pummeling bread dough and then slathering the delicious, fresh-baked results ...

James Beard said it: “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods.” And almost no bread tastes better than a hot, crusty loaf pulled from your own oven, made by your own hands ...

Unless you’re reading this story in your grandmother’s Brooklyn or Minnesota kitchen, a loaf of dark bread just out of the oven, you may be part of the vast majority of people for whom dense rye ...