Yeast isn't a food or an ingredient, except in tiny ways. It plays on food, like a conductor, or a cook. So when you realize that yeast floats in the air and lives forever, or almost forever, you may have more respect for its governance, its fungal baton. A random search engine found an article that had the word "Holbrook" in it, Holbrook being not an actor but a hamlet -- yes -- on Long Island, New York, where my beloved Costco sits, 20 minutes by car from the St. James Brewery. Low-ceiling industrial malls don't magnetize shoppers, … [Read more...]