At this point, I imagine most pandemic-era home bread bakers have soured on their sourdough experiments, relegating their oozing starters with cutesy names to the compost bucket of recent history.
Charlie Negaro Jr. isn’t one of them. …
At this point, I imagine most pandemic-era home bread bakers have soured on their sourdough experiments, relegating their oozing starters with cutesy names to the compost bucket of recent history.
Charlie Negaro Jr. isn’t one of them. …
When Charles Negaro began baking bread, his goals boiled down to this: “I wanted to make something I was proud of.”
So he named Chabaso Bakery after his children: Charlie, Abagail and Sophia—Ch-Aba-So. Almost twenty years on…
My family’s oven had broken down, and we had to wait more than a week for the replacement parts to arrive.
I was crestfallen. I bake virtually all the family’s bread. Year-round. Even if it means cranking up the oven …