Three Bags of Flour
The other day, I came back from a couple of days out of the office, and Sandy, my assistant, said, "Oh, and you have these three bags of flour..." I was as puzzled as she was, till I read the letter from Josh Dorf:
Over the holidays, I took a bunch of back issues of some magazines I get but don't always read. In a Wired issue, you talked about baking scones and so I thought I'd send you some samples of the best baking flour available to consumers. I got out of the whole .com and tech space and bought a 100-year old wheat flour company. I still have an O'Reilly Vi Editor book around here somewhere...." [Link added.]Josh may have gotten out of tech, but he clearly knows something about the cluetrain and is applying it to his new business. So he clearly deserves a bit of link-love back to his flour company (and he's right, Stone-Buhr is great flour!) Interesting how folks who started in tech have migrated out into old industries, taking with them what they learned. As with all diasporas, I expect a lot of benefit as the two cultures mix.
P.S. My scone recipe.
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No, the recipe is there. The double dash in the comment just before the recipe
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has blocked it out, at least in Firefox and probably any other standards compliant browser. (I checked the source code).
You can read it in IE 6... but of course, right?
Sorry about that -- I use Safari, and it came through fine. But apparently we do have a problem with comments on ORN. I saw a discussion of this in a backchannel list the other day, and I know it's being addressed. But clearly there are old pages like this one that haven't been updated.
I fixed the html markup error that was preventing Tim's scones recipe from showing up in Firefox and others. Thanks for tracking down the issue Pamela.
Just for the record, I also use Stone-Buhr nearly every time I make pizza or bread. Their "Artisan Bread Flour" makes the best pizza dough I've tried.
That makes two hits on the radar. :)
Boy this is ironic.. When I was growing up my family ran a Berkeley, Ca based business called Sconehenge which we sold years ago.. A few months back my dad mentioned that the guy he sold the biz too had opened up a cafe at the Berkeley Bowl, and my memory of that was triggered by some tooling around I was doing (yesterday) exploring my 'adopted hometown' where I did most of my growing up, and I decided to google the biz name.. One of the links mentioned that they had a new location, and some of the sources seemed to imply that they were still being delivered to various locations in the Berkeley area (including the Logitech cafe).. My dad worked really hard on the recipie (idk if he still has it, but you may be able to google contact info for Andy, the current owner, and talk him out of it), and lemme tell you when I worked there, I probably consumed over a metric ton of the things.. Give 'em a try if you happen to be in the area.
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Jason Long [01.30.06 10:14 AM]
Bad link for the scone recipe?