Baking up a Dream

Yarrow Corymb           

Workshop Description:

The sweet smell of sourdough bread wafts in the open window as you sit with a steaming cup of fresh herbal tea.  With tea in hand, you rise; your nose searching the air for the origin of this delicious smell.  As you open the creaky, old front door of the house and step out into the warm sunshine, it is clear that the smell is coming from close by.  But when your foot stretches out in search of the steps leading out the door, it is met only by air and you find yourself falling, tea in hand, through the sky, surrounded by clouds.  You sip the tea as you fall, completely comfortable with your present situation, the smell of fresh bread getting stronger and stronger and stronger.  Your plummeting body breaks through the clouds and you see that it is raining, but no ordinary rain.  It’s raining ovens!  Ovens filled with perfectly crafted loafs of browning bread.  Sourdoughs and multi-grains.  Now you can see, not only is it breads, but all sorts of baked goods!  Muffins, cakes and cookies!  All steaming and puffing sweet smells of fresh mouth-watering goodness!  Suddenly, an oven full of products floats next to you in the air.  Out of pure desire you reach your hand inside and pull out the most delicious looking oatmeal raisin cookie your eyes have ever met.  Slowly, wanting to savor each and every precious moment, you draw it nearer and nearer to your mouth.  But just as your lips feel the warmth of the cookie and your teeth are about to make biting contact with this soft, chewy disc of ecstasy…  you AWAKE from a dream and find yourself lying in a bed, somewhere in Järna, Sweden!

Do you feel like you need to bake now?  In this workshop we will be working at the Nibble farm bakery learning to make breads and cookies, and exploring what it can mean to add love to the list of ingredients, and how something as simple as a muffin can bring a community together!

Contributor's Biography:

Yarrow Corymb graduated from Tara Performing Arts High School after which he participated in the pioneering of YIP.  He left Sweden in January to work in the bakery at Camphill Village, where he lives in Copake, New York.